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near the rivers, have no other boats to go to 

 Philadelphia in, which they commonly do twice 

 a week on the market days, though they be fe- 

 veral miles diftant from the town, and meet 

 fometimes with fevere ftorms ; yet misfortunes 

 from the overfetting, &c. of thefe canoes, are 

 feldom heard of, though they might well be ex- 

 peeled, on account of the fmall fize of this kind 

 of boats. However, a great deal of attention 

 and care is neceflary in managing the canoes, 

 when the wind is fomewhat violent; for they 

 are narrow, round below, have no keel, arid 

 therefore may eafily be overfet. Accordingly, 

 when the wind is more brifk than ordinary, the 

 people make for the land. 



THE common garden crefles grow in feveral 

 places on the roads about Chicheft-er, and un- 

 doubtedly come from the feeds, which were by 

 chance carried out of the many gardens about 

 that town. 



THE American brambles are here in great 

 plenty. When a field is left uncultivated, they 

 are the firft plants that appear on it ; and I fre- 

 quently obferved them in fuch fields as are an- 

 nually ploughed, and have corn fown on them* 

 For when thefe bufhes are once rooted, they are 

 not eafily extirpated, Such a bum runs out ten- 

 drils fometimes four fathoms off its root, and 

 then throws a new root, fo that on pulling it 

 up, you meet with roots on both ends. On 

 fome old grounds, which had long been uncul- 

 tivated, there were fo many bumes of this kind, 

 that it was very troublefome and dangerous walk- 

 ing in them. A wine is made of the berries, as 



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