Ocean between Europe and America. 



much, that it is fcarcely a mile broad zt 

 delphia. 



HERE we were delighted in feeing now and 

 then between the woods fome farm-houfes fur-> 

 rounded with corn-fields, paftures well flocked 

 with cattle, and meadows covered with fine hay ; 

 and more than one fenfe was agreeably affedted, 

 when the wind brought to us the fined effluvia 

 of odoriferous plants and flowers, or that of the 

 frefh made hay : thefe agreeable fenfations and 

 the fine fcenery of nature on this continent, fb 

 new to us, continued till it grew quite dark. 



HERE I will return to fea, and give the reader 

 a fhort view of the various occurrences belonging 

 to Natural - Hiflory, during our croffing the 

 Ocean. 



OF fea-weeds (Fiicus Linn.) we faw, Augujl 

 the 1 6th and I7th, a kind which had a fimilarity 

 to a bunch of onions tied together; thefe bunches 

 were of the fize of the fill, and of a white co- 

 lour. Near the coaft of America within the 

 American gulf, September the nth, we met like- 

 wife with feveral fea- weeds, one fpecies of which 

 was called by the failors rock-weed*, another kind 

 looked like a firing of pearls, and another was 

 white, about a foot long, narrow, every where 

 equally wide and quite flrait. From Augujl the 

 24th to September the nth we faw no other 

 weeds, but thole commonly going under the 

 name of Gul/weed, becaufe they are fuppofed to 

 come from the gulf of Florida ; others call it 

 Sargazv, and Dr. Limhtus, Pucus natans. Its 

 Jialk is very flender, rotundato-angulated, and of 

 a dark green j it Jias many branches and each of 



them 



