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hindmoft. With thofe carts they brought home 

 their wood. Their fledges were at that time 

 made almoft in the fame manner as they arc 

 now, or about as broad again as the true Swcdiflj 

 ones. Timber and great beams of wood were 

 carried upon a dray. They baked great loaves, 

 fuch as they do now. They never had any bif- 

 cuit, though the clergymen, who came frbrn 

 Sweden, commonly got fome baked. 



THE Englijh on their arrival here bought large 

 tradls of land of the Swedes, at a very inconfide- 

 rable price. The father of the old Swede fold an 

 eftate to the Engli/h, which at this time would 

 be reckoned worth three hundred pounds, for 

 which he got a cow, a fow, and a hundred 

 gourds. 



WITH regard to the decreafe of birds, the num- 

 ber of them and fi(h, he was wholly of that opi- 

 nion which I have already mentioned. This was 

 the account which the old man gave me of the 

 former ftate of the Swedes in this country, I (hall 

 fpeak more particularly of it in the fequel. 



HURRICANES are fometimes very violent her^ 

 and often tear up great trees. They fometimes 

 proceed as it were in peculiar trafts, or lines. 

 In fome places, efpecially in the hurricane's tradt, 

 all the trees are (truck down, and it looks as if 

 the woods were cut down defignedly j but clofe 

 to the tradl the trees receive no hurt. Such is the 

 place which was (hewn to me to-day. It is dan- 

 gerous to go into the woods where the hurricanes 

 blow 5 for no one can guard fufficiently againft 

 the fudden fall of trees. 

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