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is rifen by a heavy rain. When a tree 

 falls acrofs the road, it is feldom cut off, 

 to keep the road clear, but the people go 

 round it. This they can eafily do, fince 

 the ground is very even, and without 

 (tones ; has no underwood cr (hrubs, and 

 the trees on it ftand much a/under. Hence 

 the roads here have fo many bendings. 



THE farms are moft of them fingle, and 

 you feldorn meet with even two together, 

 except in towns, or places which are in- 

 tended for towns ; therefore there are but 

 few villages. Each farm has its corn-fields, 

 its woods, its paftures and meadows. This 

 may perhaps have contributed Ibmething 

 towards the extirpation of wolves, that 

 they every where met with houfes, and 

 people who fired at them. Two or three 

 farm-houfes have generally a pafture or a 

 wood in common, and there are feldom 

 more together ; but moft of them have their 

 pwn grounds divided from the others. 



December the i8th. ALL perfons who 

 intend to be married, m-ufl either have 

 their banns published three timeijfrom the 

 pulpit, or get a licence from the governor. 

 The banns of the poorer fort of people only 

 are published, and all thofe who are a little 

 above them get a licence from the gover- 

 nor. In that licence he declares that he 

 has examined the affair, and found no ob- 



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