284 June 1749. 



near two mufket-fTiot broad. Sometimes 

 the land was cultivated, and fometimes it was 

 covered with woods. 



The hills near the river abound with red 

 and white clover. We found both thefe 

 kinds plentiful in the woods. It is there- 

 fore difficult to determine whether they 

 were brought over by the Europeans, as 

 fpme people think ; or whether they were 

 originally in America, which the Indians 



deny. 



We found Purflane (Portulaca okracea) 

 growing plentifully in a fandy foil. In 

 gardens it was one of the worfl weeds. 



We found people returning every where 

 to their habitations, which they had been 

 forced to leave during the war. 



The farms were commonly built cloie 

 to the river, on the hills. Each houfe has a 

 little kitchen-garden, and a flill lefTer oi> 

 chard. Some farms, however, had large 

 gardens. The kitchen -gardens afford fe- 

 veral kinds of gourds, water-melons, and 

 kidney-beans. The orchards are full of 

 apple-trees. This year the trees had few 

 or no apples, on account of the frofty nights 

 which had happened in May, and the 

 drought which had continued throughout 

 this iummer. 



The 



