226 OBober 1748. 



ed very near to that which is on the moun- 

 tain Kinnekulk in Weft Gothland, and makes 

 a particular ilratum in the rock. The 

 American red limeftome therefore feems to 

 be merely a variety of that I faw in Sweden, 

 it lay in ftrata of two or three fingers thick- 

 nefs j but was divifible into many thinner 

 plates or fhivers, whofe furface was feldom 

 flat and fmooth, but commonly rough : the 

 ftrata themfelves were frequently cut off by 

 horizontal cracks. When thefe ftones were 

 expofed to the air, they by degrees fhivered 

 and withered into pieces, and at laft turn- 

 ed into duft. The people of this neighbour- 

 hood did not know how to make any ufe 

 of it ; the foil above is fometimes rich and 

 fometimes poor : in fuch places where the 

 .people had lately dug new wells, I perceiv- 

 ed, that moil of the rubbim which was 

 thrown up confided of fuch a fpecies of 

 ftone. This reddifh brown earth we always 

 faw till near New Brunfwick, where it is 

 particularly plentiful. The banks of the 

 river, fhewed in many places nothing but 

 ftrata of Limeftone, which did not run ho- 

 rizontally, but dipped very much. 



About ten o'clock in the morning we 

 came to Prince-town, which is fituated in 

 a plain. Moft of the houfes are built of 

 wood, and are not contiguous, fo that there 



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