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ufe of in crushing the apples, in order to prepare 

 cyder from them afterwards. 



FROM Chicbefler I went on towards PKladel-* 

 phia. The oaks were the moft plentiful trees in 

 the wood. But there were feveral fpecies of 

 them, all different from the European ones. The 

 fwine now went about in great herds in the oak 

 woods, where they fed upon the acorns, which 

 fell in great abundance from the trees. Each 

 hog had a wooden triangular yoke about its neck, 

 by which it was hindered from penetrating 

 through the holes in the enclofures ; and, for 

 this reafon, the enclofures are made very (lender, 

 and eafy to put up, and do not require much 

 wood. No other enclofures are in ufe, but thofe 

 which are fo like fheep-hurdles. A number of 

 fquirrels were in the oak woods, partly running 

 on the ground, and partly leaping from one 

 branch to another ; and at this time they chiefly 

 fed upon acorns. 



I SELDOM faw beech trees ; but I found them 

 quite the fame with the European ones. Their 

 wood is reckoned very good for making joiner's 

 planes of. 



I DO not remember feeing any other than the 

 Mack Ants, or Formica nigra, in Penfyfoania. 

 They are as black as a coal, and of two forts ; 

 fome very little, like the lead of our ants, and 

 others of the lize of our common reddifh ants. I 

 have not yet obferved any hills of theirs, but only 

 feen fome running about fmgly. In other parts 

 of America I have likewife found other fpecies of 

 ants, as I intend to remark in the fequel. 



THE common Privet, or Ligujlrum vulgar e, is 

 VOL. I. K made 



