l88 November 1748. 



it mentioned. The coaft of New York had al- 

 ready European inhabitants for a confiderable 

 time, yet no lobfters were to be met with 

 on that coaft ; and though the people fiftred 

 ever fo often, they could never find any figns 

 of lobfters being in this part of the fea : they 

 were therefore continually brought in great 

 well-boats from New England, where they are 

 plentiful ; but it happened that one of thefe 

 well-boats broke in pieces near Ilellgate, about 

 ten Englijh miles from New Tork, and all the 

 lobfters in it got off. Since that time they 

 have fo multiplied in this part of the fea, 

 that they are now caught in the greateft abun- 

 dance. 



Nov. i ft. A KIND of cold fever, which 

 the Englijh, in this country call Fever and 

 j4gue, is very common in feveral parts of the 

 Englijh colonies. There are, however, other 

 parts, where the people have never felt it. I will 

 in the fequel defcribe the fymptoms of this 

 difeafe at large. Several of the moft conlider- 

 able inhabitants of this town affured me, 

 that this difeafe was not near fo common in 

 New Tork, as it is in Penfylvania, where ten 

 were feized by it, to one in the former pro- 

 vince ; therefore they were of opinion, that 

 this difeafe was occaiioned by the vapours 

 arifing from ftagnant frefh water, from marfties, 

 and from rivers j for which reafon thofe pro- 

 vinces, fituated on the fea fhore, could not be 

 fo much affected by it. However the carelefs- 

 nefs with which people eat quantities of me- 

 lons, water melons, peaches, and other juicy 



fruit* 



