15^ OSlober 1748. 



manner without trenches, but with furrows 

 pretty clofe together. I fometimes faw the 

 country people very bufy in fowing their 

 rye. Near every farm-houfe was a little 

 field with maize. The inhabitants herea- 

 bouts were commonly either Englijh or 

 Swedes. 



All the day long I faw a continual vari- 

 ety of trees j walnut trees of different forts, 

 which were all full of nuts 3 chefnut trees 

 quite covered with fine chefnuts -, mulber- 

 ries, faffafras, liquidambar, tulip trees, and 

 many others. 



Several fpecies of vines grew wild 

 hereabouts. They run up to the fummits 

 of the trees, their clufters of grapes and 

 their leaves covering the ftems. I even faw 

 fpme young oaks five or fix fathoms high, 

 whofe tops were crowned with vines. The 

 ground is that which is fo common herea- 

 bouts, which I have already defcribed, viz. 

 a clay mixed with a great quantity of fand, 

 and covered with a rich foil or vegetable 

 earth. The vines are principally feen on 

 trees which ftand fingle in corn-fields, and 

 at the end of woods, where the meadows, 

 paftures, and fields begin, and likewife 

 along the enclofures, where they cling with 

 their tendrils round the trees which ftand 

 ^here. The lower parts of the plant are 



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