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their own wampums, though not without a 

 deal of trouble : but at prefent the Euro- 

 peans employ themfelves that way ; efpeci- 

 ally the inhabitants of Albany, who get a 

 confiderable profit by it. In the fequel I 

 intend to relate the manner of making the 

 wampum. 



November the 2d. Besides the different 

 feels of chriftians, there are many Jews fet- 

 tled in New York, who poffefs great privi- 

 leges. They have a fynagogue and houfes, 

 and great country feats of their own pro- 

 perty, and are allowed to keep {hops in 

 town. They have likewife feveral mips, 

 which they freight and fend out with their 

 own goods. In fine they enjoy all the pri- 

 vileges common to the other inhabitants of 

 this town and province. 



During my refidence at New York, this 

 time and in the two next years, I was fre- 

 quently in company with Jews. I was in- 

 formed among other things, that thefe peo- 

 ple never boiled any meat for themfelves 

 on faturday, but that they always did it the 

 day before j and that in winter they kept a 

 fire during the whole faturday. They com- 

 monly eat no pork ; yet I have been told 

 by feveral men of credit, that many of them 

 (efpecially among the young Jews) when 

 travelling, did not not make theleaft ditti- 

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