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America. However it has been obferved, that 

 the bees always, when they fwarm, fpread to the 

 fouthvvard, and never to the northward. It 

 ieems as if they do not find the latter countries 

 ib good for their confutation : therefore they 

 cannot flay in Canada* and all that have been 

 carried over thither, died in winter. It feemed 

 to me as if the bees in America were fomewhat 

 fmaller than ours in Sweden. They have not 

 yet been found in the woods on the other fide of 

 the Blue Mountains, which confirms the opinion 

 of their being brought to America of late. A 

 man told Mr. Bartram> that on his travels in the 

 woods of North America > he had found another 

 fort of bees, which, inftead of feparating their 

 wax and honey, mixed it both together in a great 

 bag. But this account wants both clearing up 

 and confirming. 



Nov. 9th. ALL the old Swedes and Englifh- 

 .flien, born in America, whom I ever queftioned, 

 afferted that there were not near fo many birds fit 

 for eating at prefent, as there ufed to be when they 

 were children, and that their decreafe was vifi- 

 blc. They even faid, that they had heard their fa- 

 thers complain of this, in whofe childhood the 

 bays, rivers, and brooks were quite covered with 

 all forts of water fowl, fuch as wild geefe, ducks, 

 and the like. But at prefent there is fometimes 

 not a fingle bird upon them; about fixty or 

 feventy years ago, a fingle perfon could kill 

 eighty ducks in a morning; but at prefent you 

 frequently wait in vain for a fingle one. A Swede 

 above ninety years old affured me, that he had 

 in his youth killed twenty-three ducks at a mot. 



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