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from the earlier times down to our own age. It 

 would be a kind cf injuflice to the public, to 

 give all this at large to the reader. All that part 

 defcribing 'England and its curiofities and huf- 

 bandry we omitted. The particulars of the 

 pafiage from England to Penjyhania we abridged: 

 no circumftance interefting to natural hiftory or 

 to any other part of literature has been omitted. 

 From his arrival at Philadelphia, we give the ori- 

 ginal at large, except where we omitted fome 

 trifling circumftances, viz. the way of eating 

 oyfters, the art of making apple-dumplings, and 

 fome more of the fame nature, which flruck that 

 Swedijh gentleman with their novelty. 



MR. Kalm makes ufe of the Swedi/h meafure ; 

 its foot is to the Eng/t/h.foot, as 1134 to 1350. 

 For his meteorological obfervations he employ- 

 ed the thermometer of Prof. Celjius, generally 

 made ufe of in Sweden, and his was of Celfiuss 

 own making; the interval from the point of freez- 

 ing to the point of boiKng water, is equally di- 

 vided in this thermometer into TOO parts. In the 

 names of plants, we have chiefly employed after 

 his directions the Linnaan names, in the laft edi- 

 tion of his Spec. Plantarum, and Syftema Nature, 

 Vol. 2. But as his defcriptions of animals, 

 plants, and minerals are very (hort, he promifes 

 to give them at large fome time hence in a Latin 

 work. 



HE gives you his obfervations as they occurred 

 day after day, which makes him a faithful rela- 

 ter, notwithftanding it takes away all elegance 

 of ftyle, and often occafions him to make very 



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