136 Jpril 1749. 



and this prohibition met with a general 



cenfure. 



There were vail numbers of Woodlice 

 in the woods about this time; they are a 

 very difagreeable infect, for as foon as a 

 peribn fits down on an old flump of a tree, 

 or on a tree which is cut down, or on the 

 ground itfelf, a whole army of Woodlice 

 creep upon his clothes, and infenfibly come 

 upon the naked body. I have given a full 

 account of their bad qualities, and of other 

 circumftances relating to them, in the Me- 

 moirs of the Swedifh Royal Academy of 

 Sciences.. See the Volume for the year 

 ?754, page 19. 



I had a piece of petrified wood given 

 me to-day, which was found deep in the 

 ground at Raccoon. In this wood the fibres 

 and inward rings appeared very plainly ; it 

 feemed to be a piece of hiccory; for it was 

 as like it, in every refped, as if it had but 

 jufl: been cu.t from a hiccory-tree. 



I likewise got fome mells to-day which 

 the Englijh commonly call Claws, and 

 whereof the Indians make their ornaments 

 and money, which I mall take an oppor- 

 tunity of fpeaking of inthefequel. Thefe 

 Clams were not frefli, but fuch as are every 

 where found in New Jerfey, on digging 

 ,ieep into the ground ; the live mells of 



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