28 September 1748. 



feafon. Very good lime is burnt every where 

 hereabouts, for mafonry. 



THE houfes are covered with fhingles. The 

 wood for this purpofe is taken from the CupreJJits 

 tbyoides Linn, or a tree which Swedes here call 

 the white juniper -tree, and the Englijh, the white 

 cedar. Swamps and morafles formerly were full 

 qf them, but at prefent thefe trees are for the 

 greateft part cut down, and no attempt has as yet 

 been made to plant new ones. The wood is 

 very light, rots lefs than any other in this coun- 

 try, and for that realbn is exceeding good for 

 roofs. For it is not too heavy for the walls, and 

 will ferve for forty or fifty years together. But 

 many people already begin to fear, that thefe 

 roofs will in time be looked upon as having been 

 very detrimental to the city. For being fo very 

 light, moft people who have built their houfes 

 of flone, or bricks, have been led to make their 

 walls extremely thin. But at prefent this kind 

 of wood is almoft entirely deftroyed. Whenevef 

 therefore in procefs of time thefe roofs decay, the 

 people will be obliged to have recourfe to the 

 heavier materials of tiles, or the like, which the 

 walls will not be ftrong enough to bear. The 

 roof will therefore require fupports, or the peo- 

 ple be obliged to pull down the walls and to 

 build new ones, or to take other fteps for fecqr- 

 ing them. Several people have already in late 

 years begun to make roofs of tiles. - 



AMONG the public buildings I will firft men- 

 tion churches, of which there are feveral, for 

 God is ferved in various ways in this country. 



I. THE Englifo eftablifoed church ftands in 



the 



