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Besides numbers of birds of all kinds 

 which make thefe trees their abode, there 

 are likewife a kind of frogs which frequent 

 them in great numbers in fummer, they are 

 Dr. Linnteus's Rana arborea, and efpecially 

 the American variety of this animal. They 

 are very clamorous in the evening and in 

 the nights (efpecially when the days had 

 been hot, and a rain was expected) and in 

 a manner drown the finging of the birds. 

 They frequently make fuch a noife, that it 

 is difficult for a perfon to make himfelf 

 heard. 



Most of the houfes are built of bricks ; 

 and are generally ftrong and neat, and feveral 

 ftories high. Some had, according to old 

 architecture, turned the gable-end towards 

 the ftreets ; but the new houfes were alter- 

 ed in this refpect. Many of the houfes 

 had a balcony on the roof, on which the 

 people ufed to fit in the evenings in the fum- 

 mer feafon ; and from thence they had a 

 pleafant view of a great part of the town, 

 and likewife of part of the adjacent water 

 and of the oppolite more. The roofs are 

 commonly covered with tiles or mingles : 

 the latter of which are made of the white 

 iirtree, or Pinus Strobus (Linn. fp. plant, 

 page 1419.) which grows higher up in the 

 country. The inhabitants are of opinion 



that 



