ii4 June 1749. 



tiow, it being very pleafant weather ; and 

 though we ftruck on the fands once or twice, 

 yet we got loofe again, and arrived at Neid 

 York about nine o'clock. Of this town I 

 have given an account in the preceding 

 volume *. 



June the 4th. I found vines in feveral 

 gardens, got from the old countries. They 

 bear annually a quantity of excellent grapes. 

 When the winters are very fevere, they are 

 killed by the froft, and die quite to the 

 ground -, but the next fpring new fhoots 

 Ipring up from the root. 



Strawberries were now fold in abun- 

 dance about the town every day. An En- 

 gltfhman from Jamaica afferted, that in that 

 iiland there were no ftrawberries. The 

 fnakes are very fond of ftrawberries. Thofc 

 which they had here were not fo good as 

 the Swedifh and Finland ones* 



Red Clover was fown in feveral places 

 on the hills without the town. The coun- 

 try people were now employed in mowing 

 the meadows. Some were already mown 5 

 and the dry clover was put under cover* in 

 order to be carried away the firfl op- 

 portunity. 



Cherry-trees were planted in great 

 quantities before the farm-houfes, and along 



the 



* See Vol. I. p. 247, &C 



