144 Ottober 1748* 



( MR, Cock had a paper mill, on a little brook, 

 and all the coarfer forts of paper are manufac- 

 tured in it. It is now annually rented for fifty 

 pounds Penfylvania currency. 



Oct. uth. I HAVE already mentioned, that 

 every countryman has a greater or lefler number 

 of apple trees planted round his farm-houfe, 

 from whence he gets great quantities of fruit, 

 part of which he fells, part he makes cyder of, 

 and part he ufes in his own family for pyes, tarts, 

 and the like. However he cannot expedl an equal 

 quantity of fruit every year. And I was told, 

 that this year had not by far afforded fuch a great 

 quantity of apples as the preceding; the caufe of 

 which, they told me, was the continual and great 

 drought in the month of May, which had hurt 

 all the bloffoms of the apple trees, and made them 

 wither. The heat had been fo great as to dry up 

 all the plants, and the grafs in the fields. 



THE PcJy trie bum commune, a fpecies ofmofs, 

 grew plentifully on wet and low meadows be- 

 tween the woods, and in feveral places quite co- 

 vered them, as our moffes cover the meadows in 

 Sweden. It was likewife very plentiful on hills. 



AGRICULTURE was in a very bad ftate here- 

 abouts. When a perfon had bought a piece of 

 land, v/hich perhaps had never been ploughed 

 fince the creation, he cut down part of the wood, 

 tore up the roots, ploughed the ground, fowed 

 rorn on it, and the firft time got a plentiful crop. 

 But the fame land being tilled for feveral years fuc- 

 ceffively, without being manured, it at laft muft, 

 .of courfe, lofe its fertility. Its poffeffor there- 

 fore leaves it fallow, and proceeds to another part 



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