JO September 1748. 



We vifited feveral Swedes, who .were 

 fsttled here, and were at prefent in very, 

 good circumftances. One of them was 

 called Andrew Rambo ; he had a fine houfe 

 built of ftone, two ftories high, and a great 

 orchard near it. We were every where 

 well received, and flayed over night with- 

 the above-mentioned countryman. We 

 faw no other marks of autumn, than that 

 feveral fruits of this feafon were already 

 ripe. For befides this all the trees were yet 

 as green, and the ground ftill as much co- 

 vered with flowers, as in our fummer. 

 Thoufands of frogs croaked ail the night 

 long in the marfhes and brooks. The lo- 

 cufts and grafshoppers made likewife fuch a 

 great noife,, that it was hardly poflible for 

 one perfon to underftand another. The 

 trees too, were full of all forts of birds, 

 which by the variety of their, fine plumage, 

 delighted the eye, while the infinite varie- 

 ty of their tunes were continually re-echoed. 



The orchards, along which we pafied to- 

 day, were only enclofed by hurdles. But 

 they contained all kinds of fine fruit. We 

 wondered at firfi: very much when our lead- 

 er leaped over the hedge into the orchards, 

 and gathered fome agreeable fruit for us. 

 But our aftonifhment was ftill greater, when 

 we faw that the people in the garden were 



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