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taken out again, dried, and given to the children, 

 either in beer, fweetened with treacle, or in any 

 other liquor. Its effects are talked of differently. 

 Some people fay it kills the worms; others again 

 pretend that it forwards their encreafe. But I 

 know, by my own experience, that this worm- 

 feed has had very good effects upon children. 



THE Pur/lam, which we cultivate in our gar- 

 dens, grows wild in great abundance in the loofe 

 foil, amongft the maize. It was there creeping 

 on the ground, and its ftalks were pretty thick and 

 fucculent; which circumftance very juftly gave 

 reafon to wonder from whence it could get juice 

 iufficient to fupply it, in fuch a dry ground. It 

 is to be found plentiful in fuch foil, in other places 

 of this country. 



THE Bidens bipinnata, is here called Spanijh 

 Needles. It grows lingle about farm houfes, rear 

 roads, pales, and along the hedges. It was yet 

 partly in flower ; but for the greateft part it was 

 already out of bloffom. When its feeds are ripe 

 it is very difagreeable walking where it grows,. 

 For they flick to the cloaths and make them 

 black; and it is difficult to difcharge the black 

 fpots which they occafion. Each feed has three 

 fpines at its extremity; and each of thefe again 

 is full of numerous little hooks, by which the 

 feed faftens itfelf to the cloaths. 



IN the woods and along the hedges in this 

 neighbourhood, fome fingle red Ants (Formica 

 rubra) crept about, and their antennae or feel- 

 horns were as long as their bodies. 



TOWARDS night we returned to Philadelphia. 



Off. 8th* THE ihore of Penfyhania has a great 



quantity 



