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it was foon left off, left thofe that ufed it, 

 fhould be looked upon as infedted with that 

 difeafe. In Penfyhania fome people put 

 chips of faflafras into their chefts, where 

 they keep all forts of woollen ftufFs, in or- 

 der to expel the moths (or Larv^y or ca- 

 terpillars of moths or tinies) which com- 

 monly fettle in them in fummer. The root 

 keeps its fmell for a long while : I have 

 feen one which had lain five or fix years in 

 the drawer of a table, and ftill preferved the 

 ftrength of its fcent. 



A SWEDE named Ramboy related that the 

 Indians formerly dyed all forts of leather 

 red with the bark of the chefnut oak. 



Some old people remembered that in the 

 year 1697, there had been fo rigorous a 

 winter, that the ice in the river Delaware 

 was two feet thick. 



November the 22d. Aoke Helm was 

 one of the moft confidcrable Swedes in this 

 place, and his father came over into this 

 country along with the Swedijh governor 

 Prince ; he was upwards of feventy years of 

 age. This old man told us, that in his 

 youth there was grafs in the woods, which 

 grew very clofe, and was every where two 

 feet high ; but, that it was fo much lefTened 

 at prefent, that the cattle hardly find food 

 enough, and that therefore four cows now 

 give no more milk than one at that time ; 

 Y4 but 



