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and this prohibition met with a genera] 

 cenfure. 



THERE were vaft numbers of .Woodlice 

 In the woods about this time , they are a 

 very difagreeable infecl:, for as foon as a 

 perfon fits down on an old ftump of a tree l 

 or on a tree which is cut down, or on the 

 ground itfelf, a whole army of Woodlice 

 creep upon his clothes, and infenfibly come 

 upon the naked body. I have given a full 

 account of their bad qualities, and of other 

 circurnftances relating to them, in the Me- 

 moirs of the Swtdifh Royal Academy of 

 Sciences. See the Volume for the year 



I HAD a piece of petrified wood given 

 me to-day, which was found deep in the 

 ground at Raccoon. In this wood the fibres 

 and inward rings appeared very plainly ; it 

 feemed to be a piece of hiccory; for it was 

 as like it, in every refpect, as if it had but 

 juft been cut from a hiccory-tree. 



I LIKEWISE got fome ill ells to-day which 

 the Englijh commonly call Clams, and 

 whereof the Indians make their ornaments 

 and money, which I {hall take an oppor- 

 tunity of fpeaking of in the fequel. Thefe 

 Clams were not frefh, but fuch as are every 

 where found in New Jerfey, on digging 

 deep into the ground ; t{ie live fhells of 



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