60 Jufy 1749. 



common flies firft came over here, with 

 the Europeans and their (hips, which were 

 ftranded on this coaft. I (hall not difpute 

 this ; however, I know, that whilfl I was 

 in the defarts between Saratoga and Crown- 

 point, or fort St. Frederic, and fat down to 

 reft or to eat, a number of our common 

 flies always came, and fettled on me- It 

 is therefore dubious, whether they have 

 not been longer in America than the term 

 above mentioned, or whether they have 

 been imported from Europe On the other 

 hand, it may be urged that the flies were 

 left in thofe defarts at the time when fort 

 Anne was yet in a good condition, and 

 when the Englifh often travelled there and 

 back again ; not to mention that feveral 

 Europeans y both before and after that time, 

 had travelled through thofe places, and car- 

 ried the flies with them, which were at- 

 tracted by their provifions. 



Wild Cattle are abundant in the fouthern 

 parts of Canada, and have been there fince 

 times immemorial. They are plentiful in 

 thofe parts, particularly where the Illinois 

 Indians live, which are nearly in the fame 

 latitude with Philadelphia ; but further to 

 the north they are leldorn obferved. I 

 faw the fkiii of a wild ox to-day ; it was 

 as big as one of the largcft ox hides in Eu- 

 rope, 



