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ced, is faid to be very durable. The pco* 

 pie fpin and weave a great part of their every 

 day's apparel, and dye them in their houfes. 

 Flax is cultivated by many people, and 

 fucceeds very well, but the ufe of hemp is 

 not very common. 



Rye, wheat, and buck-wheat are cut 

 with the fickle, but oats are mown with a 

 fcythe. The fickles which are here made 

 ufe of are long and narrow, and their fharp 

 edges have clofe teeth on the inner fide. 

 The field lies fallow during a year, and in 

 that time the cattle may graze on it. 



All the inhabitants of this place from 

 the higheft to the loweft, have each their 

 orchard, which is greater or lefs according 

 to their wealth. The trees in it are chiefly 

 peach trees, apple trees and cherry trees ; 

 compare with this what I have already faid 

 upon this fubjed: before. 



A LITTLE before noon, we left this 

 place and continued our journey, paft the 

 iwedijh church in Raccoon, to Peils groves, 

 .The country, on the fides of this road, is 

 -very fandy in many places and pretty near 

 level. Here and there appear fingle farms, 

 yet they are very fcarce, and large exteniive 

 pieces of ground are ftill covered with fo- 

 refts, which chiefly confifl of feveral fpecies 

 -of oak and hiccory. However we could 



go 



