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land till Auguft I5th, in which interval of time 

 he made excurfions to Woodford in Eflex, to Lit" 

 tie Gaddefden in Hertford/hire, where William 

 Ellis, a man known by his publications in htif- 

 bandry lived, but whole practical hufbandry Mr. 

 Kalm found not to be equal to the theory laid 

 down in his writings; he like wife faw fuing- 

 hoe in Buckingbamfhire, Etc?i, and feveral other 

 places, and all the curioftties and gardens in and 

 about London : at laft he went on board a fliip, 

 and traverfed the ocean to Philadelphia in Pen- 

 Jyfoania, which was formerly called New Sweden, 

 where he arrived September the 26th. The reft 

 of that year he employed in collecting feeds of 

 trees and plants, and fending them up to Swe- 

 den; and in feveral excurfions in the environs of 

 Philadelphia. The winter he paffed among his 

 countrymen at Raccoon in New Jerfey. The next 

 year, 1749, Mr. Kalm went through New Jerfey 

 and New Tork, along the river Hudfon, to Albany, 

 and from thence, after having crofted the lakes of 

 St. George and Cbamplain, to Montreal and Que- 

 bec, he returned that very year, againft winter, to 

 Philadelphia, and fent a new cargo of feeds, 

 plants, and curioiities to Sweden. In the year 

 1750, Mr. Kalm faw the weftern parts of Pen- 

 fyhania and the coaft of New Jerfey , Tung- 

 Jlrcem ftaid in the former province all the fum- 

 mer for the collection of feeds ; and Prof. Kalm 

 in the mean time paffed New Tork and the Blue 

 Mountains, went to Albany, then along the ri- 

 ver Mohawk to the Iroquois nations, where he 

 got acquainted with the Mohawk's, Oneidas, T*uf- 

 faroras, Onandagds 9 and Kayugaws. He then 



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