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that the water in the meadows forced it 

 open, but the river water fhut it. 



In the evening we came into the houfe 

 of a Swede called Peter Rambo, and we ftaid 

 the night at his houfe. 



The pines which we had feen to day, and 

 which I have mentioned before, were of 

 that kind which has double leaves and ob- 

 long cones covered with aculeated fcales. 

 The Englijh to diftinguifh it call it the 

 Jerfey Pine: commonly there were only 

 two fpines or leaves in one fafcicle, as in 

 our common Swedijh pines, but fometimes 

 three; the cones had long fpines, fo that 

 thev were difficult to be touched. Thefe 

 pines look at a diftance wholly like the 

 Swedift ones, fo that if the cones were not 

 regarded, they might eafily be taken for 

 the fame fpecies. Of thefe pines they make 

 a great quantity of tar, of which I fhall 

 fpeak in the fequel ; but as mod: of them 

 are but fmall, they are good for nothing 

 elfe ; for if they be employed as ports, or 

 poles in the ground, they are in a fhort time 

 rendered ufelefs by rotting : as foon as they 

 are cut down the worms are very greedy of 

 them -, they foon eat through the wood, and 

 only a few weeks after it is cut down; how- 

 ever it is made ufe of as fuel where no other 



wood 



