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^otes and melody -, feveral people are there- 

 Fore of opinion, that they are the beft fing- 

 ing birds in the world. So much is certain, 

 that few birds come up to them j this is 

 what makes them precious : the Swedes 

 call it by the fame name as the Englijh. 



About noon we came to New Brijiol, -a 

 fmall town in Penfyhania, on the banks of 

 the Delaware, about fifteen Englijh from 

 Philadelphia. Moft of the houfes are built 

 of ftone, and ftand afunder. The inhabi- 

 tants carry on a fmall trade, though moft 

 of th^m get their goods from Philadelphia, 

 On the other fide of the river, almoft di- 

 rectly oppofite to New BrifioU lies the town 

 of Burlington^ in which the governor of 

 New Jerfey refides. 



We had now country feats on both fides 

 of the roads. Now we came into a lane 

 enclofed with pales on both fides, including 

 pretty great corn-fields. Next followed a 

 wood, and we perceived for the fpace of four 

 Englijh miles nothing but woods, and a very 

 poor foil, on which the Lupinus perennis 

 grew plentifully and fucceeded well. I was 

 overjoyed to fee a plant come on fo well in 

 thefe poor dry places, and even began to 

 meditate, how to improve this difcovery in 

 a foil like that which it inhabited. But I 

 afterwards had the mortification to find that 



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