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their particular ftables or ftyes ; on both ends of 

 the buildings were great gates, fo that one could 

 corrae in with a cart and horfes through one of 

 them, and go out at the other : here was there- 

 fore under one roof the threlhing floor, the barn, 

 the ftables, the hay loft, the coach houfe, &c. 

 This kind of buildings is chiefly made ufe of by 

 the Dutch and Germans *, for it is to be obferved, 

 that the country between 'Trenton and New York 

 is inhabited by few Ertglijhmeti, but, inftead of 

 them, by Germans or Dutch, * the latter of which 

 eipecially are numerous. 



BEFORE I proceed, I find it neceflary to re- 

 mark one thing with regard to the Indians ', or 

 old Americans. For this account may perhaps 

 meet with readers, who, like many people of my 

 acquaintance, may be of opinion, that all North 

 America was almoft wholly inhabited by favage 

 or heathen nations, and they may be aftonifhed, 

 that I do not mention them more frequently in 

 my account. Others may perhaps imagine, that 

 when I mention in my journal, that the country 

 is much cultivated, that in feveral places, houfes 

 of ftone or wood are built, round which are corn- 

 fields, gardens, and orchards, that I am fpeak- 

 ing of the property of the Indians-, to undeceive 

 them, I here give the following explication. The 

 country, efpecially all along the coafts, in the 

 Englijh colonies, is inhabited by Europeans, who 

 in fome places are already fo numerous, that few 



* THIS kind of building is frequent in the north of Germany, 

 Holland, and Prujfia, and therefore it is no wonder that it is ent- 

 ployed by people who were ufed to them in their own coun- 

 try. F. 



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