126 Otfober 1748. 



of brown and pale leaves. The leaves of the red 

 maple were alfo red. 



I CONTINUED my journey to Chicbefter, a 

 borough upon the Defo&are, where travellers 

 pafs the river in a ferry. They build here every 

 year a number of fmall {hips for fale. From an 

 iron work which lies higher in the country, they 

 carry iron bars to this place, and {hip them. 



CANOES are boats made of one piece of wood, 

 and are much in ufe with the farmers, and other 

 people upon the Delaware, and fome little rivers. 

 For that purpofe a very thick trunk of a tree is 

 hollowed out : the red juniper, or red cedar tree, 

 the white cedar, the chefnut tree, the white oak, 

 and the tulip tree, are commonly made ufe of for 

 this purpofe. The canoes made of red and white 

 cedar are reckoned the beft, becaufe they fwim 

 very light upon the water, and laft twenty years 

 together. But of thefe the red cedar canoes are 

 moil preferable. Thofe made of chefnut trees 

 will likewife laft for |. gbod while. But thofe 

 of white oak are hardly *Terviceable above fix 

 years, and alfo fwim deep, becaufe they are fo 

 heavy. The Liquidambar tree, or Liquidambar 

 Jlyractflua Linn, is big enough, but unfit for 

 making canoes, becaufe it imbibes the water. 

 The canoes which are made of the tulip tree, 

 fcarce laft fo long as thofe of white oak. The 

 fize of the canoes is different, according to the 

 purpofcs they are deftined for. They can carry 

 fix perfons, who, however, muft by no means 

 be unruly, but fit at the bottom of the canoe in 

 the quieteft manner poffible, left the boat over- 

 fet. The Swedes in Penfyhania and New Jerfey, 



near 



