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which the birds may have difperfed every where. 

 Theenclofures and pales are generally made here of 

 wooden planks and pofls. But a few good cecono- 

 inifts, having already thought of fparing the woods 

 for future times, have begun to plant quick hedges 

 round their fields ; and to this purpofe they take 

 the above-mentioned privet, which they plant in 

 a little bank, which is thrown up for it. The 

 foil every where hereabouts is a clay mixed with 

 fand, and of courfe very loofe. The privet hedges 

 however, are only adapted to the tamenefs of 

 the cattle and other animals here; for the hogs 

 all have a triangular yoke about their necks, and 

 the other cattle are not very unruly. But in fuch 

 places where the cattle break through the en- 

 clofures, hedges of this kind would make but a 

 poor defence. The people who live in the neigh- 

 b^arhood of Philadelphia, are obliged to keep 

 their hogs enclofed. 



IN the afternoon I rode with Mr. Cock, to his 

 country feat, about nine miles from the town, to 

 the north-weft. 



THE country on both fides of the road was 

 icovered with a great foreft. The trees were all 

 xvith annual leaves, and I did not fee a fingle fil- 

 er pine. Mod of the trees were different forts of 

 .eak. But we likewife faw chefnut, walnut, lo- 

 cuft, and apple trees, with hiccory, blackberry 

 bufhes, and the like. The ground ceafed to be 

 fo even as it was before, and began to look more 

 like the Englifo ground, diverfified with hills and 

 vallies. We found neither mountains nor great 

 .ftones, and the wood was fo much thinned, and 

 the ground fo uniformly even, that we could fee 



a great 



