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ing only the low and moift ones. They are like- 

 wife very perceptible in fuch places where lime- 

 ftone is to be met with ; and though all the other 

 parts of the country be not vifited by fuch cold 

 nights in a fummer, yet thofe where limeftone 

 lies have commonly one or two every fummer. 

 Frequently the places where the limeftone lies 

 are fituated on a high ground ; but they fuffer 

 notwithftanding their fituation; whilft a little 

 way off in a lower ground, where no lime- 

 ftone is to be found, the effedts of the cold 

 nights are not felt. Mr. Evans was the firft 

 who made this obfervation, and I have had oc- 

 cafion at different times to fee the truth of it, on 

 my travels, as I (hall mention in the fequel. The 

 young hiccory-trees have their leaves killed 

 fooner than other trees, in fuch a cold night, and 

 the young oaks next ; this has been obferved by 

 other people, and I have found it to be true, in 

 the years 1749 and 1750. 



Mar. nth. Of the genus of Wood-peckers, 

 we find here all thofe, which Catejby in his firft 

 volume of the Natural Hiftory of Carolina, has 

 dnwn and^defcribed. I fhall only enumerate 

 them, and add one or two of their qualities ; but 

 their defcription at large I defer for another oc- 

 cafion. 



ficus principal's, the King of the Wood-peckers, 

 is fcund here, though very feldom, and only at 

 a certain feafon. 



Pens pileatus, the crefted Wood-pecker. This 

 I have already mentioned. 



Plots auratu^ the gold-winged Wood-pecker. 

 This pecies is plentiful here, and the Swedes call 



it 



