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ter hedge. The privet hedges grow very 

 thick and clofe, but having no fpines, the 

 hogs, and even other animals break eafily 

 through them ; and v^rhen they have once 

 made a hole, it requires a long while before 

 it grows up again. But when the hedges 

 confift of fpinofe bufhes, the cattle will 

 hardly attempt to get through them. 



About noon I came through Chejler, a 

 little market- town which lies on the Dela^ 

 ware. A rivulet coming down out of the 

 country, pafles through this place, and dif- 

 charg€s itfelf into the Delaware. There is 

 a bridge over it. The houfes ftand difperf- 

 ed. Moft of them are built of ftone, and 

 two or three ftories high 3 Tome are how- 

 ever made of wood. In the town is a 

 church, and a market-place. 



Wheat was now fown every where. In 

 fome places it was already green, having 

 been fown four weeks before. The wheat 

 fields were made in the EngUJh manner, 

 having no ditches in them, but numerous 

 furrows for draining the water, at the dif- 

 tance of four or fix foot from one another. 

 Great flumps of the trees which had been 

 cut down, are every where feen on the 

 fields, and this ihews that the country has 

 been but lately cultivated. 



The roots of the trees do not go deep 



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