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to be dyed) is put into the boiler. This bark 

 likewife affords a good black ink. When the 

 tree is felled early in fpring, a fweet juice runs 

 out of it, like that which runs out of our 

 birches. This juice they do not make any ufe 

 of here ; but, in Canada , they make both treacle 

 and fugar of it. Here is a variety of this tree, 

 which they call the curled Maple, the wood be- 

 ing as it were marbled within; it is much ufed 

 in all kinds of joiner's work, and the utenfils 

 made of this wood, are preferable to thofe made 

 of any other fort of wood in the country, and are 

 much dearer than thofe made of the wood of the 

 wild cherry trees fPrunus Virginiana) or of black 

 walnut trees. But the moft valuable utenfils 

 were thofe made of curled black walnut, for that 

 is an exceffive fcarce kind of wood. The curled 

 maple was likewife very uncommon, and you 

 frequently find trees, whofe outfides are marbled, 

 but their infide not. The tree is therefore cut 

 very deep before it is felled, to fee whether it 

 has veins in every part. 



IN the evening I reached Philadelphia. 



QcL yth. IN the morning we crofied the De- 

 la^circ in a boat to the other fide, which belongs 

 to Nrio jrrfifrtzch perfon paying four pence for 

 his palfrge. The country here is very different 

 from thnt in Per</y!va>iia; for here the ground is 

 almoft mere land, but in the other province it is 

 mixed with a good deal of clay, and this makes 

 the ground pretty rich. The difcoveries which 

 I made to-day, of infefts and plants, I intend to 

 mention in another work. 



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