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greater tubes for the circulation of the fap than 

 the latter. And for this reafon they do not build 

 fo many {hips in Penfyhania, as they do in New 

 England, though more than in Virginia and Mary- 

 land; but Carolina builds very few, and its mer- 

 chants get all their (hips from New England, Thofe 

 which are here made of the bell oak, hardly are 

 ferviceable above ten, or at mod twelve years ; 

 for then they are fo rotten, that no body ven- 

 tures to go to fea in them. Many captains of 

 {hips come over from England to North America, 

 in order to get {hips built. But moft of them, 

 choofe New England, that being the moft nor- 

 therly province; and if they even come over in 

 {hips which are bound for Philadelphia) they fre- 

 quently, on their arrival, fet out from Penfyfoa- 

 nia for New England. The Spaniards in the Weft 

 Indies, are faid to build their {hips of a peculiar 

 fort of cedar, which holds out againft putrefaction 

 and wet ; but it is not to be met with on the con- 

 tinent in the Englijh provinces. Here are above 

 nine different forts of oak, but not one of them 

 is comparable to the {ingle fpecies we have in 

 Sweden, with regard to its goodnefs. And there- 

 fore a {hip of European oik cofts a great deal 

 more than one made of American oak. 



MANY people who chiefly employed them- 

 felves in gardening, had found, in a fucceffion of 

 years, that the red Beet, which grew out of the 

 feed which was got from New York* became very 

 fweet, and had a very fine tafte ; but that it every 

 year loft part of its goodnefs, if it was cultivated 

 from feeds which were got here. The people 

 were therefore obliged to get as many feeds of 



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