184 OStobft 1748, 



orchard with apple trees. Here, and on the 

 whole journey before, I obferved a prefs for 

 cyder at every farm-houfe, made in different 

 manners, by which the people had already prefled 

 the juice out of the apples, or were juft buiied 

 with that work. Some people made ufe of a 

 wheel made of thick oak planks, which turned 

 upon a wooden axis, by means of a horfe draw- 

 ing it, much in the fame manner as the people 

 do with woad ; * except that here the wheel 

 runs upon planks. Cherry trees flood along the 

 enclofures round corn-fields. 



THE corn-fields were excellently fituated, and 

 either fown with wheat or rye. They had no 

 ditches on theij* fides, but (as is ufual in Eng- 

 land} only furrows, drawn at greater or lefler 

 diftances from each other. 



IN one place we obferved a water mill, fo fi- 

 tuated, that when the tide flowed, the water ran 

 into a pond : but when it ebbed, the floodgate 

 was drawn up, and the mill driven by the wa- 

 ter, flowing out of the pond. 



A^OUT eight o'clock in the morning we ar- 

 rived at the place where we were to crofs the 

 xvater, in order to come to the town of A 7 ew 

 Tork. We left our horfes here, and went on 

 board the yacht : we were to go eight Engli/b 

 miles by fea ; however, we landed about eleven 

 o'clock in the morning at New Tork. We faw 

 a kind of wild ducks in immenfe quantities upon 

 the water : the people called them Blue bills, and 



* DR. LinrttfXf, in his Travels through Weftrogothia, has given 

 a drawing of the machine by which woad is prepared, on the 

 iz8th page. 



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