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vallies between them. The foil confifted 

 of a brick coloured mould, mixed with 

 clay, and a few pebbles, I rode fometimes 

 through woods of feveral forts of trees, and 

 fometimes amidft little fields, which had been 

 cleared of the wood, and which at prefent were 

 corn-fields, meadows, and paftures. The 

 farm-houfes flood fingle, fometimes near 

 the roads, and fometimes at a little diftance 

 from them, fo that the fpace between the 

 road and the houfes was taken up with lit- 

 tle fields and meadows. Some of the 

 houfes were built of ftone, two flories 

 high, and covered with fhingles of the 

 white cedar. But moft of the houfes were 

 wooden, and the crevices flopped up with 

 clay, inflead of mofs, which we make ufe 

 of for that purpofe. No valves were to be 

 met with in the chimneys, and the people 

 even did not know what I meant by them. 

 The ovens were commonly built up at fome 

 diflance from the houfes, and were either 

 under a roof, or without any covering 

 againfl the weather. The fields bore part- 

 ly buck-wheat, which was not yet cut, 

 partly maize, and partly wheat, which was 

 l3Ut lately fown -, but fometimes they lay 

 fallow. The vines climbed to the top of 

 feveral trees, and hung down again on both 

 lides. Other trees again were furrounded 

 by the ivy (Hedera quinquefoliaj which 



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