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ropean trees do not expe<3, after a confide^- 

 rable degree of warmth, any fuch co!4 

 nights as will kill their flowers ; for, in the 

 cold countries, there feldom happen any 

 ho,t days fucceeded by fuch cold nights as 

 will hurt the flowers confiderably. On the 

 contrary, the wild trees in this country are 

 directed by experience, (if I may fo fpeak) 

 not to truft to the firfl warmth ; but they 

 "wait for a greater heat, when they are 

 already fafe from cold nights. Therefore, 

 it happens often, that t;he flowers of the 

 European trees are killed by the frofts here ; 

 but the native trees are feldom hurt, though 

 they be of the fame kipd with the European 

 ones. This is a manifest propf of the wif- 

 dom qf the Creator. 



May the 5th. EARJ.Y this morning I 

 went to Rapaapo, which is a great village, 

 whofe farms ly all fcattered. It was inhabited 

 merely by Swedes, arid not a fingle Englifh- 

 man y or people of any other nation, lived in 

 it : therefore they have preferred their na- 

 tive Sivedifo tongue, ancl mjxed but few 

 Englijh words with it. The intention of 

 my journey v/as partly to fee the place, and 

 to collect plants and other natural curiofi- 

 ties there ; and partly to find the places 

 where the Wbtte Cedar, or Cftpreffits thyoides, 

 grows. 



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