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a great number is annually built ; a few hides, 

 and fometimes fome forts of wood. The 

 Englijh iflands in America, as Jamaiea and 

 Barbadoes, get from New England, fifh, 

 flefh, butter, cheefe, tallow, horfes, cattle^ 

 all forts of lumber, fuch as pails, buckets, 

 and ho^fheads ; and have returns made in 

 rum, fugar, melafies, and other produces 

 of the country, or in cafh, the greateft part 

 of all which they fend to London (the money 

 efpecially) in payment of the goods received 

 from thence, and yet all this is infuffieient 

 to pay off the debt. 



OBober the 15th. The Alders grcvf 

 here in confiderable abundance on wet and 

 low places, and even fometimes on pretty 

 high ones, but never reached the height of 

 the European alders, and commonly flood 

 like a bufh about a fathom of two high. 

 Mr. Bartram, and other gentlemen who 

 had frequently travelled in thefe provinces, 

 told me that the more you go to the fouth, 

 the lefs are the alders, but that they are 

 higher and taller, the more you advance to 

 the north. I found afterwards myfelf, that 

 the alders in fome places of Canada, are 

 little inferior to the Swedijh ones. Their 

 bark is employed here in dying red and 

 brown. A Swedijfj inhabitant of America, 

 told me that he had cut his leg to the very 

 bone, and that fome coagulated blood had 

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