124 March 1749. 



time made almoft in the fame manner as 

 they are now, or about as broad again as 

 the true Swedijb ones. Timber and great 

 beams of wood were carried upon a dray. 

 They baked great loaves, fuch as they do 

 now. They had never any bifcuit, though 

 the clergymen, who came from Sweden, 

 commonly got fome baked. 



The Englijh on their arrival here bought 

 large tracts of land of the Swedes, at a very 

 inconfiderable price. The father of the 

 old Swede fold an eftate to the JLngliflo, 

 which at this time would be reckoned 

 worth three hundred pounds, for which he 

 got a cow, a fow, and a hundred gourds. 



With regard to the decreafe of birds, 

 the number of them and fifh, he was 

 wholly of that opinion which I have al- 

 ready mentioned *. This was the account 

 which the old man gave me of the former 

 ftate of the Swedes in this country. I mall 

 fpeak more particularly of it in the fe- 

 quel. 



Hurricanes are fometimes very vio- 

 lent here, and often tear up great trees. 

 They fometimes proceed as it were in pe- 

 culiar tracts, or lines. In fome places, 

 efpecially in the hurricane's tract, all the 



trees. 



* Sec vol. I. page 289. 



