112 OStober 1748. 



Penfyfoania, under forty deg. of lat. and becomes 

 a pretty tall and thick tree, was fo little at Ofwego 

 and FortNicholfon, between forty-three and forty- 

 four deg. of lat. that it hardly reached the height 

 of two or four feet, and was feldom fo thick as 

 the little finger of a full grown perfon. This 

 was likewife the cafe with the Tulip tree. For in 

 Penfylvania it grows as high as our tailed oaks 

 and firs, and its thicknefs is proportionable to its 

 height. But about Ofwego it was not above 

 twelve feet high, and no thicker than a man's 

 arm. The Sugar Maple, or Acer faccharin urn, 

 is one f the mod common trees in the woods 

 of Canada, and grows very tall. But in the 

 fouthern provinces, as. New Jerfey and Penfyfaa- 

 nia, it only grows on the northern fide of the 

 blue mountains, and on the fteep hills which are 

 on the banks of the river, and which are turned 

 to the north. Yet there it does not attain to a 

 third or fourth part of the height which it has in 

 Canada. It is needlefs to mention more exam- 

 ples. 



Oct. i ft. THE gnats, which are very trouble- 

 fome at night here, are called Mufquetoes. They 

 are exactly like the gnats in Sweden, only fome- 

 what lefs; and the defcription which is to be met 

 with in Dr. Linnaeus $ Syjlema Natures, and Fauna 

 Suecica, fully agrees with them, and they are call- 

 ed by him Culex pipiens. In day-time or at night 

 they come into the houfes, and when the people 

 are gone to bed they begin their difagreeable hum- 

 ming, approach always nearer to the bed, and at 

 laft fuck up fo much blood, that they can hardly 

 fly away. Their bite caufes blifters in people of 



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