n6 Offober 1748. 



ries. She did fo, but at the fame time it made 

 her vomit ; yet this was not fufficient to keep 

 her from following the prefcription three times 

 more, though as often as me made ufe thereof, it 

 always had the fame effedt. However (lie was en- 

 tirely freed from that pain, and perfectly recovered. 



A BLACK Woodpecker with a red head, or the 

 PicuspileatusLinn. is frequent in \hzPenfyhanian 

 forefts, and ftays the winter, as I know from my 

 own experience. It is reckoned among thofe 

 birds which deftroy the maize > bccaufe it fettles 

 on therjpe ears, and deftroy s them with its bill. 

 The Swedes call it T'illkroka ; but all other wood- 

 peckers, thofe with gold yellow wiags excepted, 

 are called Hackfpickar in the Sivedijh language. 

 I intend to defcribe them all together more exadly 

 in a particular work. I only obferve here, that 

 almoft all the different fpecies of woodpeckers are 

 very noxious to the maize, when it begins to 

 ripen : for by picking holes in the membrane 

 round the ear, the rain gets into it, and caufes. 

 the ear, with all the corn it contains, to rot. 



Off. 3d. IN the morning I fet out for Wil- 

 mington, which was formerly called Chriftina by 

 the Swedes, and is thirty Engli/h miles to the 

 fouth-weft of Philadelphia. Three miles behind 

 Philadelphia I pafled the river Skulkill in a ferry, 

 beyond which the country appears almoft a con- 

 tinual chain of mountains and vallies. The 

 mountains have an eafy flope on all fides, and the 

 vallies are commonly crofted by brooks, with 

 cryftal ftreams. The greater part of the country 

 is covered with feveral kinds of deciduous trees; 

 fgr I fcarcely few a fingle tree of the fir kind, if 

 3 I except 



