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never to the northward. It feems as if they 

 do not find the latter countries fo good for 

 their conftitution : therefore they cannot 

 flay in Canada, and all that have been car- 

 ried over thither, died in winter. It feem- 

 ed to me as if the bees in America were 

 fomewhat fmaller than ours in Sweden. 

 They have not yet been found in the woods 

 on the other fide of the Blue Mountains ^ 

 which confirms the opinion of their being 

 brought to America of late. A man told 

 Mr. Bartram, that on his travels in the 

 woods of North America, he had found 

 another fort of bees, which, inftead of fe- 

 parating their wax and honey, mixed it 

 both together in a great bag. But this ac- 

 count wants both clearing up and confirm- 

 ing. 



November the 9th. All the old Swedes 

 and Englijhmen born in America whom I 

 ever queftioned, afierted that there were not 

 near fo many birds fit for eating at prefent, 

 as there ufed to be when they were chil- 

 dren, and that their decreafe was vifible. 

 They even faid, that they had heard their 

 fathers complain of this, in whofe child- 

 hood the bays, rivers and brooks were 

 quite covered with all forts of water fowl, 

 fuch as wild gt&(&, ducks, and the like. 

 But at prefent there is fometimes not a 

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