340 November 1748. 



kind of worms, devoured the leave9 of al- 

 moft all the trees in Penfyhania ; yet they 

 did not venture to attack the leaves of the 

 Kalmia. Some people afferted, that when 

 a fire happened in the woods, it never went 

 further, as foon as it came to the Kalmias, 

 or Spoon trees. 



November the 21ft. The Swedes and all 

 the other inhabitants of the country plant 

 great quantities of maize, both for them- 

 felves and for their cattle. It was afferted 

 that it is the beft food for hogs, becaufe it 

 makes them very fat, and gives their flefh 

 an agreeable flavour, preferable to all other 

 meat. I have given in two differtations up- 

 on this kind of corn to the Swedifh Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, which ftand in their 

 Memoirs, one in the Volume for the year 



1 75 1, in the laft quarter, and the other in 

 the firft quarter of the Volume for the year 



1752, and thither I refer my readers. 

 The wheels of the carts which are here 



made ufe of, are compofed of two different 

 kinds of wood. The felloes were made of 

 what is called the Spanijh oak, and the 

 fpokes of the white oak. 



The Sajfafras tree grows every where 

 in this place. I have already obferv- 

 ed feveral particulars in regard to it, 

 and intend to add a few more here. On 



throwing 



