New yerfey, Raccoon. 8 1 



Swedes fettled here feldom made any ufe 

 of thefe fhells -, but the Indians who for- 

 merly lived here broiled them and ate 

 the flefh. Some of the Europeans eat 

 them fometimes. 



The fnow ftill remained in fome parts 

 of the wood, where it was very fhady, but 

 the fields were quite free from it. The 

 cows, horfes, fheep, and hogs, went into 

 the woods, and fought their food, which 

 was as yet very trifling. 



March the 3d. The Swedes call a fpe- 

 cies of little birds, Snofogel, and the Eng- 

 lijh call it Snow-bird. This is Dr. Lin- 

 naufs Emberiza hyemalis. The reafon 

 why it is called fnow-bird is becaufe it 

 never appears in fummer, but only in win- 

 ter, when the fields are covered with fnow. 

 In fome winters they come in as great 

 numbers as the maize-thieves, fly about 

 the houfes and barns, into the gardens, 

 and eat the corn, and the feeds of grafs, 

 which they find fcattered on the hills, 



At eight o'clock at night we cbferved a 

 meteor, commonly called ^fnow-fire *. I 

 have defcribed this meteor in the memoirs 

 of the RoyzLSwedt/Jj Academy of Sciences, 

 fee the volume for the year 1752, page 



* Probably nothing but an Aurora borealis. 



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