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poffible, left the boat overfet. The Swedes 

 in Penfyhania and New Jerfey near the 

 rivers, have no other boats to go to Phila- 

 delphia in, virhich they commonly do twice 

 a v^^eek on the market days, though they 

 be feveral miles diftant from the tovt^n, 

 and meet fometimes w^ith fevere ftorms ; 

 yet misfortunes from the ovcrfetting, &c. 

 of thefe canoes are feldom heard of, though 

 they might well be exped:ed on account of 

 the fmall lize of this kind of boats. How- 

 ever a great deal of attention and care is 

 neceffary in managing the canoes, when 

 the wind is fomewhat violent ; for they are 

 narrow, round below, have no keel, and 

 therefore may ealily be overfet. Accord- 

 ingly when the wind is more brifk than 

 ordinary, the people make for the land. 



The common garden crefTes grow in fe- 

 veral places on the roads about Chicbejier, 

 and undoubtedly come from the feeds, 

 which were by chance carried out of the 

 many gardens about that town. 



The American brambles are here in great 

 plenty. When a field is left uncultivated, 

 they are the firft plants that appear on it 5 

 and I frequently obferved them in fuch 

 fields as are annually ploughed, and have 

 corn fown on them. For when thefe bufh- 

 es are once rooted, they are not eafily ex- 

 tirpated. 



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