114 September 1748. 



But this book, did Mr. Bartram more harm 

 than good; for as he is rather backward in 

 writing down what he knows, this publi- 

 cation was found to contain but few new 

 obfervations." It would not however be 

 doing juflicc to Mr. Bartram s merit, if it 

 were to be judged of by this performance. 

 He has not filled it with a thoufandth part 

 of the great knowledge, which he has ac- 

 quired in natural philofophy and hiftory, 

 efpecially in regard to North America, I 

 have often been at a lofs to think of the 

 fources, from whence he got many things 

 which came to his knowledge. I likewife 

 owe him many things, for he pofTefTed that 

 great quality of communicating every thing 

 he knew. I (hall therefore in the fequel, 

 frequently mention this gentleman. For I 

 fhould never forgive myfelf, if I were to 

 omit the name of the firft inventor, and 

 claim that as my own invention, which I 

 learnt from another perfon. 



Many Mufcle pells, or My till anatini, 

 are to be met with on the north-weft fide 

 of the town in the clay-pits, which were at 

 prefent filled with water from a little brook 

 in the neighbourhood. Thefe mufcles feem 

 to have been wafhed into that place by the 

 tide, when the water in the brook was high. 

 For thefe clay-pits are not old, but were 



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