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of New York had already European inhabi- 

 tants for a confiderable time, yet no lobfters 

 were to be met with on that coaft -, and 

 though the people fimed ever fo often, they 

 could never find any figns of lobfters being 

 in this part of the fea : they were there- 

 fore continually brought in great well boats 

 from New England, where they are plen- 

 tiful ; but it happened that one of thefe 

 wellboats broke in pieces near Hellgate, 

 about ten Englifi miles from New York, 

 and all the lobfters in it got off. Since 

 that time they have fo multiplied in this 

 part of the fea, that they are now caught 

 in the greateft abundance. 



November the ift. A kind of cold fe- 

 ver, which the Englijh in this country call 

 Fever and Ague, is very common in feveral 

 parts of the Englifo colonies. There are 

 however other parts, where the people 

 have never' felt it. I will in the fequel 

 defcribe the fymptoms of this difeafe at 

 large. Several of the moft confiderable in- 

 habitants of this town, afTured me that 

 this difeafe was not near fo common in 

 New York, as it is in Penfyhania, where 

 ten were feized by it, to one in the former 

 province ; therefore they were of opinion, 

 that this difeafe was occafioned by the va- 

 pours arifing from ftagnant frefh water, from 



C^ marfhes* 



