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tvalk in the town, for it feemed quite like a 

 garden : the trees which are planted for this 

 purpofe, are chiefly of two kinds. The Water 

 beech, or Litmaus's Platanus occidentalis, are the 

 moft numerous, and give an agreeable {hade in 

 fumrner, by their great and numerous leaves. 

 The Locuft tree, or Linn&ufs Robinia Pfcud- 

 Acacia, is likewife frequent : its fine leaves, and 

 the odoriferous fcent which exhales from its 

 flowers, make it very proper for being planted 

 in the ftreets near the houfes, and in gar- 

 dens. There are likewife lime trees and elms 

 in thefe walks, but they are not by far fo fre- 

 quent as the others : one feldom met with trees 

 of the fame fort next to each other, they being 

 in general planted alternately. 



BESIDES numbers of birds of all kinds which 

 make thefe trees their abode, there are like wile 

 a kind of frogs which frequent them in great 

 numbers in fummer; they are Dr. Linnaus's Rana 

 arborca, and efpecially the American variety of 

 this animal. They are very clamorous in the 

 evening and in the nights (efpecially when the 

 days had been hot, and a rain was expe&ed) and 

 in a manner drown the finging of the birds. 

 They frequently make fuch a noife, that it is dif- 

 ficult for a perfon to make hirnfelf heard. 



MOST of the houfes are built of bricks; and 

 are generally ftrong and neat, and feveral ftories 

 high. Some had, according to old architecture, 

 turned the gable-end towards the ftreets; but 

 the new houfes were altered in this refpeft. 

 Many of the houfes had a balcony on the roof, on 

 which the people ufed to lit in the evenings in 



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