Ptnfyhania, Germantown, 143 



here; but the greateft difficulty confifts in keep* 

 ing them over winter, for they will bear neither 

 cold, nor a great heat, nor wet. They muft 

 therefore be kept, during winter, in a box with 

 fand, in a warm room. In Penfyhania, where 

 they have no valves in their chimnies, they are 

 put in fuch a box with fand, at fome diftancc 

 from the fire, and there they are fecured both 

 againft froft and againft over great heat. It will 

 not anfwer the purpofe to put them into dry fand 

 in a cellar, as is commonly done with the com- 

 mon fort of potatoes. For the moifture which 

 is always in cellars, penetrates the fand, and 

 makes them putrify. It would probably be very 

 eafy to keep them in Sweden in warm rooms, 

 during the cold feafon. But the difficulty lies 

 wholly in bringing them over to Sweden. I car- 

 ried a confiderable number of them with me on 

 leaving America, and took all poffible care in pre- 

 ferving them. But we had a very violent ftorm 

 at fea, by which the {hip was fo greatly damaged, 

 that the water got in every where, and wetted 

 our cloaths, beds, and other moveables, fo much, 

 that we could wring the water out of them. It 

 is therefore no wonder that rny Bermuda potatoes 

 were rotten ; but as they are now cultivated in 

 Portugal and Spain, nay, even in England, it will 

 be eafy to bring them into Sweden. The drink 

 which the Spaniards prepare from thefe potatoes, 

 in their American pofleflions, is not ufual in Pen* 

 fyfoania.* 



* MR. Miller defcribes this liquor in his Gardener's Di&ion*. 

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