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feparated from one another. Each countryman 

 lived by himfelf, had his own ground about his 

 houfe, feparated from the property of his neigh- 

 bour. The greateft part of the land, between 

 thefe farms fo diftant from each other, was over- 

 grown with woods, confiding of tall trees. Here 

 and there appeared fome fallen trees, thrown 

 down by the wind ; fome were torn up by the 

 roots ; others broken quite acrofs the ftem. In 

 fome parts of the country the trees were thick 

 and tall, but in others I found large traces co- 

 vered with young trees, only twenty, thirty, or 

 forty years old : thefe trafts, I am told, the Indi- 

 ans formerly had their little plantations in. I did 

 not yet fee any marks of the leaves coming out, 

 and I did not meet with a flower in the woods : 

 for the cold winds, which had blown for feveral 

 days together fucceflively, had hindered this. 

 The woods confifted chiefly of feveral fpecies of 

 oak, and of hiccory. The fwamps were filled 

 with red maple, which was all now in flower, and 

 made thefe places look quite red at a diftance. 



THE old Swede, whom 1 came tovifit, feemed 

 to be ftill pretty hearty and frem, and could 

 walk by the help of a ilick ; but he complained 

 of having felt, in thefe latter years, fome pains in 

 his back, and limbs, that he could keep his feet 

 warm in winter only by fitting near the fire* 

 He faid he could very well remember the ftate 

 of this country, at the time when the Dutch pof- 

 fefied it, and in what circumftances it was in be-> 

 fore the arrival of the Englifo. He added, that 

 he had brought a great deal of timber to Phila~ 

 dtlpbia, at the time that it was built. He ftill 



remembered 



