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quantities of wheat, which is brought to 

 Albany -, and from thence they fend many 

 yachts Jaden with flour to New York. 

 The wheat-flour ftom Albany is reckoned 

 the beft in ail North America* except that 

 from Sopus or Kings Town, a place between 

 Albany and New York. All the bread in 

 Albany is made of wheat. At New York 

 they pay the Albany flour with feveral 

 /hillings more per hundred weight, than 

 that from other places. 



RYE is like wife fown here, but not fo 

 generally as wheat. 



THEY do not fow much barley here, be- 

 caufe they do not reckon the profits very 

 great. Wheat is fo plentiful that they make 

 malt of it. In the neighbourhood of New 

 York, I faw great fields fown with barley. 



THEY do not fow more oats than are ne- 

 ceflary for their horfes. 



THE Dutch and Germans who live here- 

 abouts, fow peafe in great abundance ; they 

 fucceed very well, and are annually carried 

 to New York, in great quantities. They 

 have been free from infects for a confider- 

 able time. But of late years the fame 

 beetles which deftroy the peafe in Penfyl- 

 vtrttia, New Jerfey, and the lower parts of 

 the province of New York *, have likewife 



appeared 



f J have mentioned them before. See vol. i. p. 1 76, 177. 



