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for this reafon, the enclofures are made 

 very llender, and eafy to put up, and do 

 not require much wood. No other enclo- 

 fures are in ufe, but thofe which are fo like 

 (heep hurdles. A number of fquirrels were 

 in the oak woods, partly running on the 

 ground, and partly leaping from one branch 

 to another; and at this time they chiefly 

 fed upon acorns. 



. I SELDOM faw beach trees ; but I found 

 them quite the fame with the European ones. 

 Their wood is reckoned very good for 

 making joiner's planes of. 



I DO not remember feeing any other than 

 the black AntSy or Formica nigra in Fenfyl- 

 njania. They are as black as a coal, and of 

 two forts, fome very little, like the lead of 

 our ants, and others of the fize of our com- 

 mon reddifh ants. I have not yet obferved 

 any hills of theirs, but only feen fome run- 

 ning about fingly. In other parts of Ame- 

 rica, I have likewife found other fpecies of 

 ants, as 1 intend to remark in the fequel. 



The common Privet, or Liguftrum vul- 

 gare, is made ufe of in many places, as a 

 hedge round corn-fields and gardens, and 

 on my whole voyage, I did not fee that any 

 other trees were made ufe of for this pur- 

 pofe, though the Englijhmen here, well 

 know that the hawthorn makes a much bet- 

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