158 Atiguji 1749. 



or three yards broad, between the furrow** 

 The perpendicular height of the middle of 

 the ridge, from the level to the ground, is 

 near one foot. All their corn is fummer-* 

 corn j for as the cold in winter deftroys 

 the corri which lies in the ground, they 

 never fow in autumn. I found white 

 wheat moft commonly in the fields. They 

 have likewife large fields with peafe, oats, 

 in fbme places fummer-rye, and now and 

 then barley. Near almoft every farm I 

 met with cabbages, pumpions, and melons. 

 The fields are not always fown, but ly fal- 

 low every two years. The fallow-fields 

 are not ploughed in fummer, fo the weeds 

 grow without reftraint in them, and the 

 cattle are allowed to go on them all fum- 

 mer *. 



THE houfes in the country are built 

 promifcuoufly of (tone, or woo$V To 

 thofe of (tone they do not employ -bricks, 

 as there is not yet any confiderable, quan- 

 tity of bricks made here. They there- 

 fore take what ftones they can find in the 

 neighbourhood, efpecially the black lime- 

 flatus. Thefe are quite compact when 



broke, 

 QIS esvol* sih wuiny! ol ,3qk|. noli n 



* Here* follows, in the original, an account 6f the en- 

 clofures made ufe of near Quebec, which is intended only 

 for the Swedes, but not for a nation that has made fuch 

 progre-fs in agriculture and huibandry, as the Englijh. F. 



