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this kind are only found in fait water, and 

 on the fea coafts. But thefe Clams were 

 found at Raccoon, about eight or mneEngl/Jb 

 miles from the river Delaware, and near a 

 hundred from the neareft fea-fhore. 



At night I went to Mr Bartranis feat. 



April the 13th. I employed this day 

 in feveral obfervations relative to Botany. 



Two nefts of wafps hung in a high 

 maple-tree, over a brook. Their form 

 was wholly the fame with that of our wafp- 

 nefts, but they exceeded them in fize. 

 Each neft. was ten inches in diameter ; in 

 each neft were three cakes, above one ano- 

 ther, of which the lowermoft was the big- 

 geft, and the two uppermoft decreafed in 

 proportion : there were fome eggs of wafps 

 in them. The diameter of the loweft 

 cake was about fix inches, and one quarter, 

 and that of the uppermoft, three inches, 

 and three quarters. The cells in which 

 the eggs or the young ones were depofited 

 were hexagonal, and the colour of the neft 

 grey. I was told, that the wafps make 

 this kind of nefts out of the grey fplints, 

 which ftick to old pales and walls. A 

 dark brown bee, with black antenna, and 

 two black rings on the belly, and purple 

 wings, flew about the trees, and might 

 perhaps be an inhabitant of thefe nefts. 



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