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We have numerous kinds of grafles in 

 Sweden^ which make infinitely finer mea- 

 dows than this. 



y^/y-the 30th. THE wild Plumb-trees 

 grow in great abundance on the hills, along 

 the rivulets about the town. They were 

 fo loaded with fruit, that the boughs were 

 quite bent downwards by the weight. The 

 fruit was not yet ripe, but when it comes 

 to that perfection, it has a red colour and 

 a fine tafte, and preferves are fometimes 

 made of it. 



Black Currants (Ribes nignim, Linn.) are 

 plentiful in the fame places, and its berries 

 were ripe at this time. They are very fmall, 

 and not by far fo agreeable asthofeiniSWdfcfl. 

 Par/heps grow in great abundance on the 

 rifing banks of rivers, along the corn-fields, 

 'and in other places. This led me to think, 

 that they were original natives of America* 

 and not firft brought over by the Europeans* 

 Bui on my journey into the country of the 

 Iroquois, where no European ever had r fet- 

 tlement, I never once law if, though the 

 foil was excellent; and from hence it ap- 

 pears plain enough, that it was tranfported 

 hither from Europe, and is not originally 

 an American plant ; and therefore it is in 

 vain fought for in any p&t of this con- 

 E a tinent, 



