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cold nights in a fummer, yet thofe where 

 limeftone lies have commonly one or two 

 every fummer. Frequently the places where 

 the limeftone lies are fituated on a high 

 ground ; but they fufFer notwithstanding 

 their fituation ; whilft a little way off in a 

 lower ground, where no limeftone is to be 

 found, the effects of the cold nights are not 

 felt. Mr. Evans was the fir ft who made 

 this obfervarion, and 1 have had occafion at 

 different times to fee the truth of it, on my 

 travels, as I mall mention in the fequel. 

 The young hiccory-trees have their leaves 

 killed fooner than other trees, in fuch a 

 cold night, and the young oaks next; this 

 has been obferved by other people, and 

 I have found it to be true, in the years 

 1749 and 175c 



March the nth. Of the genus of 

 Wood-peeler s, we find here all thofe, which 

 Cate/by in his firft volume of the Natural 

 Hijiory of Carolina, has drawn and de- 

 fcribed. I mail only enumerate them, and 

 add one or two of their qualities ; but their 

 defcription at large I defer for another oc- 

 cafion. 



Picus principalis, the King of the Wood- 

 peckers, is found here, though very fel- 

 dom, and only at a certain feafon. 



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