1748. 



there being too fhort, and the winter too cold j 

 and much lefs will it grow in Penfyfoania. 

 They are as yet ignorant in Carolina of the art 

 of making arrack from rice : it is chiefly South 

 Carolina that produces the greateft quantity of 

 rice ; and on the other hand they make the moft 

 tar in North Carolina. 



Nov. yth. THE ftranger from Carolina, whom 

 I have mentioned before, had met with many 

 oyfter (hells at the bottom of a well, feventy 

 J&nglijh miles diftant from the fea, and four 

 from a river : they lay in a depth of fourteen 

 EngliJIj feet from the furface of the earth : the 

 water in the well was brackifij 3 but that in 

 the river was frefh. The fame man, had, at 

 the building of a faw-mill, a mile and a half 

 from a river, found, firft fand, and then clay 

 filled with oyfter (hells. Under thefe he found 

 fcveral bills of fea birds as he called them, which 

 were already quite petrified : they were probably 

 : Glo/opetr<z. 



:< THKRE are two fpecies of foxes in the En~ 

 ~gfijh oolonies, the one grey, and the other red ; 

 but in the fequel I {hall (hew that there are 

 others which fometimes appear in Canada. The 

 grey foxes are here conftantly, and are very com - 

 iaofi'mPenfyhania and in the fouthern provin- 

 ces : in the northern ones they are pretty fcarce, 

 and the French in Canada call them Virginia 

 Foxes on that account : in fize they do not quite 

 come up to our foxes. They do no harm to 

 lambs : but they prey upon all forts of poul- 

 try, whenever they can come at them. They 

 do not however feem to be locked upon 



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