406 March 1749. 



cepting the (heels, were fkins of feveral animals $ 

 fuch as bears, wolves, &c. 



TEA, coffee, and chocolate, which are at 

 prefent univerfally in ufe here, were then * wholly 

 unknown. Bread and butter, and other fubftan- 

 tial food, was what they breakfafted upon ; and 

 the above-mentioned fuperfluities have only been 

 lately introduced, according to the account of the 

 old Swede. Sugar and treacle they had in abund- 

 ance, as far as he could remember j and rum 

 formerly bore a more moderate price. 



FROM the accounts of this old Swede I con- 

 cluded, that before the Englijh fettled here, 

 they followed wholly the cuftoms of Old Sweden ; 

 but after the Englijh had been in the country for 

 fome time, the Swedes began gradually to follow 

 their cuftoms. When this Swede was but a boy, 

 there were two Swedt/?} fmiths here, who made 

 hatchets, knives, and fcythes, exa&ly like the 

 Swedijh ones, and made them (harper than they 

 can be got now. The hatchets now in ufe are 

 in the Englijh way, with a broad edge ; and their 

 handles are very narrow. Almoft all \\\z 'Swedes 

 make ufe of baths ; and they commonly bathed 

 every Saturday. They celebrated Chriftmas with 

 feveral forts of games,; and with feveral peculiar 

 difhes, as is ufual in Sweden ; all which is now, 

 for the greateft part, left off. In the younger 

 years of this Swede, they made a peculiar kind of 

 carts here. They fawed thick pieces of liquid- 

 amber trees, and made ufe of two of them for 

 the foremoft wheels, and of two more for the 



j * Before the JLvgUJb fettled here, 



hind- 



