New Jerfey, Raccoon. 20 r 



about an inch wide ; they went almoft 

 perpendicularly into the earth, and were 

 made by dung-beetles, or by great worms, 

 which are made ufe of for angling. 

 The dung-beetles had dug very deep into 

 the ground, thro* horfe-dung, tho j it lay 

 on the hardefl road, fo that a great heap of 

 earth lay near it. Thefe holes were after- 

 wards occupied by other infects, efpecially 

 grafshoppers, (Grylli) and Cicada ; for by 

 digging thefe holes up, I commonly found 

 one or more young ones of thefe infects, 

 which had not yet got their perfect fize. 



May the igth. THIS morning I left 

 Raccoon, a parifh in the country called New 

 Sweden, and which is yet chiefly inhabited 

 by Swedes, in order to proceed in my tra- 

 vels to the North. I firft intended to fet 

 out with the beginning of April, but for 

 feveral reafons this was not advifeable. No 

 leaves were come out at that time, and 

 hardly any flowers appeared. I did not know 

 what flowers grew here in fpring ; for the 

 autumnal plants are different from the 

 vernal ones. The Swedes had this winter 

 told me the ceconornical and medical ufes of 

 many plants, to which they gave names un- 

 known to me : they could not then {hew 

 me thofe plants on account of the feafon, 

 and by their deficient and erroneous de- 

 5 fcriptions^ 



