Penjyhania, Germantown. 1S3 



moifture which is always in cellars, pene- 

 trates the fand, and makes them putre- 

 fy. It would probably be very eafy to 

 keep them in Sweden in warm rooms, 

 during the cold feafon. But the difficulty 

 lies wholly in bringing them ever to Swe- 

 den, I carried a confiderable number of 

 them with me on leaving America, and 

 took all poflible care in preferving them. 

 But we had a very violent ftorm at fea, by 

 which the fliip was fo greatly damaged, that 

 the water got in every where, and wetted 

 our cloaths, beds and other moveables fo 

 much, that we could wring the water out 

 of them. It is therefore no wonder that 

 my Bermuda potatoes were rotten -, but as 

 they are now cultivated in Portugal and 

 Spain, nay even in England, it will be eafy 

 to bring them into Sweden. The drink 

 which the Spaniards prepare from thefe po- 

 tatoes in their American pofleffions is not 

 ufual in Penfyhania,^ 



Mr. Cock had a paper mill, on a little 

 brook, and all the coarfef forts of paper are 

 manufactured in it. It is noW annually 

 rented for fifty pounds Penfyhania cur- 

 rency. 



M 4 OSfober 



* Mr. Miller defcribes this liquor in his Gardener's Difti- 

 onary under the article of Cenvoivu/us, fpecies the 17th. and 

 1 8th. 



