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RED is dyed with brazil wood, and likewife 

 with a kind of mofs, which grows on the trees 

 here \ blue is dyed with Indigo - y but to get a black 

 colour, the leaves of the common field forrel 

 (Rumex Acetofella) are boiled with the ftuff to be 

 dyed, which is then dried, and boiled again with 

 logwood and copperas : the black colour thus pro- 

 duced, is faid to be very durable. The people 

 fpin and weave a great part of their every day's 

 apparel, and dye them in their houfes. Flax is 

 cultivated by many people, and fucceeds very 

 well, but the ufe of hemp is not very com- 

 mon. 



RYE, wheat, and buck- wheat are cut with 

 the fickle, but oats are mown with a fcythe. The 

 fickles which are here made ufe of are long and 

 narrow, and their fharp edges have clofe teeth on 

 the inner fide. The field lies fallow during a 

 year, and in that time the cattle may graze on 

 it. 



ALL the inhabitants of this place, from the 

 higheft to the loweft, have each their orchard, 

 which is greater or lefs according to their wealth. 

 The trees in it are chiefly peach trees, apple trees, 

 and cherry trees : compare with this what I have 

 already faid upon this fubject before. 



A LITTLE before noon we left this place, 

 and continued our journey, paft the Swedifo 

 church ia Raccoon, to Pcils groves. The coun- 

 try, on the fides of this road, is very fandy in 

 many places, and pretty near level. Here and 

 there appear fingle farms, yet they are very fcarce; 

 and large exteniive pieces of ground are ftill co- 

 vered with forefts, which chiefly confift of feve- 



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