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porous ftones abforb it immediately, but 

 thofe of a more fblid texture, as marbles, 

 &c. keep it on their furface till it evapo- 

 rates. 



Page 2^. The author reprefents the 

 'w/jite cedar -wood as aim oft entirely de- 

 Jlroyed; though at prefent, above twenty 

 years after his account, it is fliU ufed in 

 Penfyhania, and quantities of it to be had, 

 Sufficient both for home confumption, and 

 exportation to the Wejl-India iflands. 



Page 48. The river Delaware is called 

 one of the greatejl rhers in the world-, 

 here, I fuppofe, the author forgot a great 

 many its fuperiors. 



For the tenor of the above remarks I 

 am indebted to a worthy friend and bene- 

 fadon 



To the Errata of the firfl Volume muf! 

 be referred the following : page 117, note, 

 line 5, eafible, xtzd., feajible , P. 247, line 

 3 and 4, forty [even, read, feventy four. 

 V, 298, line 13, Originals, read, Orignah. 



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