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I except a few red cedars. The foreft was high, 

 but open below, fo that it left a free profpeft to 

 the eye, and no under-wood obOru&ed the paf- 

 fage between the trees. It would have been eafy 

 in fome places to have gone under the branches 

 with a carriage for a quarter of a mile, the trees 

 {landing at great diftances from each other, and 

 the ground being very level. In fome places lit- 

 tle glades opened, which were either meadows, 

 paftures, or corn-fields \ of which latter fome 

 were cultivated and others not. In a few places 

 feveral houfes were built clofe to each other. But 

 for the greateft part they were fingle. Tn part of 

 the fields the wheat was already fown, in the Eng- 

 lijb manner without trenches, but with furrows 

 pretty clofe together. I fometimes faw the coun- 

 try people very bufy in fowing their rye. Near 

 every farm-houfe was a little field with maize. 

 The inhabitants hereabouts were commonly ei- 

 ther Englifo or Swedes. 



ALL the day long I faw a continual variety of 

 trees ; walnut trees of different forts, which were 

 all full of nuts; chefnut trees quite covered with 

 fine chefnuts; mulberries, faflafras, liquidambar, 

 tulip trees, and many others. 



SEVERAL fpecies of vines grew wild herea- 

 bouts. They run up to the fummits of the trees, 

 their cluilers of grapes and their leaves covering 

 the items. I even faw fome young oaks five or 

 fix fathoms high, whofe tops were crowned with 

 vines. The ground is that which is fo common 

 hereabouts, which I have already defcribed, viz. 

 a clay mixed with a great quantity of fand, and 

 covered with a rich foil or vegetable earth, The 



I 3 vines 



