io6 March 1749. 



Near the furface of the ground were fome 

 poles laid, on which the hay was put, 

 that the air may pafs freely through it. I 

 have mentioned before, that the cattle have 

 no (tables in winter or fummer, but mud: 

 go in the open air, during the whole year. 

 However, in Philadelphia, and in a few 

 other places, I have feen that thofe people 

 who made ufe of the latter kind of hay- 

 flacks, viz. that with moveable roofs, com- 

 monly had built them fo, that the hay was 

 put a fathom or two above the ground, on 

 a floor of boards, under which the cattle 

 could ftand in winter, when the weafther 

 was very bad. Under this floor of boards 

 were partitions of boards on all the fides, 

 which however flood far enough from each 

 other, to aftcrd the air a free paflage. 



March the 27th. .L the morning I 

 went in order to fpeak with the old Swede, 

 Nils Gujiafson, who was ninety-one years 

 of age. I intended to get an account of 

 the former ftate of New Sweden. The 

 country which I now parTed through was 

 the fame with that which I had found in 

 thofe parts of North America I had hitherto 

 feen. It was diversified with a variety ©f 

 little hills and vallies : the former con- 

 fided of a very pale brick-coloured earth, 

 compofed, for the greateit part, of a fine 



fandj 



