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but that is not very dear, in a country where the 

 fugar-plantations are not far off. Quantities of 

 thefe berries are fent over, preferved, to Europe, 

 and to the Weft Indies. 



Mar. 2d. Mytilus anatinus, a kind of mufcle- 

 fhells, was found abundantly in little furrows, 

 which croflcd the meadows. The fhells were 

 frequently covered on the outfide with a thin 

 cruft of particles of iron, when the w r ater in the 

 furrows came from an iron mine. The Englijh- 

 men and Swedes fettled here feldom made any 

 ufe of thefe fhells ; but the Indians who formerly 

 lived here broiled them and eat the flefh. Some 

 of the Europeans eat them fometimes. 



Mar. 3d. THE Swedes call a fpecies of little 

 birds, Snofogel, and the Englijh call it Snow- 

 bird. This is Dr. Linnceiws Emberiza byemalis. 

 The reafon why it is called fnow-bird is be- 

 caufe it never appears in fummer, but only in 

 winter, 'when the fields are covered with fnow. 

 In fome winters they come in as great numbers 

 as the rpaize-thieves, fly about the houfes and 

 barns, into the gardens, and eat the corn, and 

 the feeds of grafs, which they find fcattered on 

 the hills. 



AT eight o'clock at night we obferved a me- 

 teor, commonly called a Jnow-jire *. 



WILD Pigeons, (Columba rnigratoria^)^ flew 

 in the woods, in numbers beyond conception, 

 and I was affured that they were more plentiful 



* Probably nothing but an Aurora borcalis. 



f Of this Pigeon ofPaJTage we have given here a plate, tab. JK 

 taken from a parcel of birds, lately brought from America, of which 

 we were favoured with a fine Ipecimen. F. 



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