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trees are (truck down, and it looks as if 

 the woods were cut down deiignedly ; but 

 clofe to the tract the trees receive no hurt. 

 Such is the place which was fhewn to me 

 to-day. It is dangerous to go into the 

 woods where the hurricanes blow; for'the 

 trees fall before one has time to guard 

 himfelf, or make the leaft provifion for his 

 fecurity. 



The Penfyhanian Afp was now in^full 

 bloffom. But neither this tree, nor thofe 

 near a-kin to it, (hewed their leaves. 



An old countryman arTerted that he com- 

 monly fowed a bufhel of rye, on an acre 

 of ground, and got twenty bufhels in re- 

 turn -, but from a bufhel of barley he got 

 thirty bufhels. However in that cafe the 

 ground muft be well prepared. Wheat 

 returns about as much as rye. The foil 

 was a clay mixed with fand and mould. 



In the evening I returned*. 



March the 28th. I found a black 

 beetle -f (Scarabceus) with a pentagonal 



oval 



* From Nils Gujlafson, the old Swede. 



■f- Th: beetle here defcribed, feems to be the Scarabam 

 Carolinus, Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 545, and of Drury Illuftra- 

 tions of Nat. Hift. tab. 35. f. 2. It is common in Ne<ut 

 Ysrky Nf<w Jer/ey, Penjylvania, Maryland, and Carolina. F. 



