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with the Sumach, or Rhtis glabra, and 

 with black-berry bu(hes, fo that there the 

 cattle couid find very little or no food. 

 The corn fields were broad-cajl, or divided 

 into pieces, which were near feventeen 

 feet broad, and feparated from each other 

 only by means of furrows. Thefe pieces 

 were uniform, and not elevated in the mid- 

 dle. 



MELOE majalis, a fpecies of oil- bee tie, 

 crept about on the hills. 



PAPILIQ Antwpa, or willow butterfly, 

 flew in the woods to-day, and was the 

 firft butterfly which I faw this year. 



PAPILIO Eupbrofyne, or the April but- 

 terfly, was one of the fcarce fpecies. The 

 other American infe<ft, which I defcribed 

 this day and the following days, I mall 

 mention on fome other occafion. In the 

 fequel I mall only mention thofe which 

 were remarkable for fome peculiar qualities. 



THE hay-ftacks were commonly made 

 here after the Swedifh manner, that is, in 

 the fhape of a thick and fliort cone, with- 

 out any cover over it. When the people 

 wanted any hay, they cut fome of it loofe, 

 by a peculiar fort of a knife. However, 

 many people, efpecially in the environs of 

 Philadelphia^ had hay-ftacks with roofs 

 ^vhich could be moyed up and do\yn. 



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