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branches, and the tops of the youngeft 

 oaks. The horfes went into the maize 

 fields, and ate the dry leaves on the few 

 ftalks which remained. The meep ran 

 about the woods, and on the corn fields. 

 The chickens perched on the trees of the 

 gardens, at night ; for they had no particu- 

 lar habitations. The hogs were likewife 

 expofed tb the roughnefs of the weather^ 

 within a fmall inclofure. 



A SMALL kind of birds, which the Swedes 

 call Snow- bird, and the Englijh Chuck-bird, 

 came into the houfes about this time. At 

 other times, they fought their food along 

 the roads. They are feldom feen, but when 

 it fnows. Catejby, in his Natural Hiftory 

 of Carolina, calls it P after nivalis ; and Dr. 

 Linn&us, in his Syjlema Nature?, calls it 

 Ember iza by emails. 



THE river Delaware was now covered 

 with ice oppofite Philadelphia, and even 

 fomewhat lower, and the people could walk 

 over it ; but nobody ventured to ride over 

 on horfeback. 



January the 22d. THERE are partridges 

 in this country ; but they are not of the 

 fame kind with ours. The Swedes called 

 them fometimes rapphons (partridges), and 

 fbmetimes aekkerhoens (quails) . Some of the 

 Englijh likewife called them partridges, 

 D- 2 others 



