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lime-ftone, and partly of other ftoncs 

 in the neighbourhood. The roof is made 

 of fhingles or of ftraw. The gable is al- 

 ways very high and fteep. Other buildings, 

 fuch as barns and (tables, are of woodj/bb 



WILD-GEESE and ducks, began now te 

 migrate in great flocks to the foudicrn 

 countries. 



Offiober the 2d. THE two preceding days, 

 and this, I employed chiefly in coUefting 

 feeds, ,. 



V 1>3PHB laft night's froft had caufed a great 

 alteration in feveral trees. Walnut-trees 

 of all forts fhed their leaves in plenty now* 

 The flowers of a kind of nettle * were all 

 entirely killed by the froft. The leaves of 

 the American lime- tree were like wife da- 

 maged* .In the kitchen-gardens the leaves 

 of the melons were all killed by the froft. 

 However, the beech, oak, and birch, did 

 not feeni to have fuffered at all. The fields 

 were all covered with a hoar-froft. The 

 ice in the pools of water was a geometrical 

 line and a half in thicknefe. ii^i^fetejMw 

 -. .THE biennial oenothera -f* grows in 

 abundance on open woody hills, and fallow 

 ctiV^sv) lo' sltsq nisritrr^; tt'ni ??cdl 



* JJrtica divAricata, Unn. \ ->^ ' 



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