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fummers ; but now, they were either en* 

 tirely dried up, or for the greateft part 3 

 and in the latter cafe, all the water was loft 

 in fummer. He had himfelf feen the fifti 

 dying in them, and he was apt to believe that 

 at this time it did not rain fo much in fum- 

 mer, as it did when he was young. One 

 of his relations, who lived about eight 

 miles from the river Delaware, on a hill 

 near a rivulet, had got a well, dug in his 

 court yard : at the depth of forty feet, they 

 found a quantity of fhells of oyfters and 

 mufcles, and likewife a great quantity of 

 reed, and pieces of broken branches. I 

 afked, to what caufes they afcribed what 

 they had difcovered ? and I was anfwered, 

 that fome people believed thefe things had 

 lain there ever fince the deluge, and others, 

 that the ground increafed. 



Peter Rambo, a man who was near fixty 

 years of age, allured me that in feveral 

 places at Raccoon, where wells had been 

 dug, or any other work carried deep into 

 the ground, he had feen great quantities of 

 mufcle fhells and other marine animals. 

 On digging wells, the people have fome- 

 times met with logs of wood at the depth 

 of twenty feet, fome of which were putri- 

 fied, and others as it were burnt. They 

 once found a great fpoon in the ground, 



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