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streets being from sixty to seventy feet 

 wide, it is a customary thing to plant a row 

 of these trees before the houses on each side, 

 to separate the foot from the carriage way. 



There are very few white-thorns, no 

 sallows, nor any kind of plant that will 

 make fork or hoe -shafts. There are great 

 numbers of farmers that have not a hay- 

 fork ; which surprised me at first : but that 

 is not at all strange, as hundreds of them 

 have no hay. 



I was, however, astonished, that, with so 

 many thousand acres of oaks, acorns should 

 not be more plentiful. I did not bear of a 

 single instance of their hogs ever fattening 

 on acorns in the woods, and have frequently 

 enquired the reason: the inhabitants could 

 not inform me ; but I suppose there never 

 is a sufficiency for the purpose. Such a 

 mode of feeding hogs would be of infinite 

 advantage to the Americans ; particularly 

 as they live so much on salt pork. 



There is a tree that they call gum, of 

 which they make their pumps : but it will 



