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any known ufe, and only ferves to attract 

 the eye whilft in flower. 



The Kolmia latifolia was like wife in full 

 blo/Tom at prefent. It rivals the preced- 

 ing one, in the beauty of its colour; 

 yet though they are confpicuous in 

 regard to the colours and fhape of their 

 floMers, they are no ways remarkable for 

 fmell, fuch as the Magnolia is ; for they 

 have little or no fmell at all. So equally 

 and juftly does nature diftribute her gifts; 

 no part of the creation has them all, each 

 has its own, and none is abfolutely with- 

 out a (hare of them. 



May the 30th. The Moravian Bre- 

 thren, who arrived in great numbers from 

 Europe, at New York, in May, brought two 

 converted Greenlanders with them. The 

 Moravians who were already fettled in Ame- 

 rica, immediately fent fome of their bre- 

 thren from Philadelphia to the new co- 

 mers, in order to welcome them. Among 

 thtfe deputies were two North American 

 Indians, who had been converted to their 

 doctrine, and likewiie two South American 

 Indians, from Surinam. Thefe three kinds 

 of converted Indians accordingly met at 

 New York. I had no opportunity of feeing 

 them ; but all thofe who had feen them, 

 and whom I converfed with, thought that 



they 



