150 April 1749. 



corn rofe higher in one year than in ano- 

 ther, on account of a great drought or 

 bad weather, but ftill there was always 

 corn fufficient for the confumption of the 

 inhabitants. Nor is it likely that any 

 great famine can happen in this country, 

 unlefs it pleafe God to afflict it with extraor T 

 fdinary punifhments. The weather is well 

 known, from more than fixty years experi- 

 ence. Here are no cold nights which hurt the 

 germ. The wet is of fhort continuance, 

 and the drought is feldom or never of long 

 duration. But the chief thing is the great 

 variety of corn. The people fow the dif- 

 ferent kinds, at different times andfeafons, 

 and though one crop turn out bad, yet 

 another fucceeds. The fummer is fo long, 

 that of fome fpecies of corn they may get 

 three crops. There is hardly a month 

 from May to October or November, inclu- 

 five, in which the people do not reap fome 

 kind of corn, or gather forne fort of fruit. 

 It would indeed be a very great misfortune 

 if a bad crop (bould happen ; for here, as 

 in many other places, they lay up no ftores, 

 and are contented that there is plenty of 

 food for the "prefent exigencies. 



THE Peach-trees were now every where 

 in bloffom; their leaves were not yet 

 come out of the buds, and therefore the 



flowery 



