52 December 1748. 



The millers who attended the mill 

 which flood here, faid, that the axle-trees 

 pf the wheels of the mill were made of 

 white oak, and that they continued good 

 three cr four years, but that the fir-wood 

 does not keep fo well. The cogs of the 

 mill-wheel, and the pullies, are made of the 

 wood of the white walnut-tree, becaufe it 

 is the harder): which can be got here. The 

 wood of mulberry-trees is of all others 

 reckoned the moft excellent for pegs and 

 plugs in iliips and boats. 



At night I went over the river Dela- 

 ware, from WUhmngtoriy to the ferry in g- 

 place, on the New Jerjey fide. 



December the 13th. In the morning I 

 returned to Raccoon. 



On many trees in the woods of this 

 country, either on one of the fides, or in 

 the middle of a branch, or round a branch, 

 are greater or lefier knobs or excrefcences. 

 Sometimes there is only a fingle one in a 

 tree. In the fize there is a confiderable 

 difference, for fome of thele knobs are as 

 big and bigger than a man's head, others 

 are only final L They project above the 

 furface of the tree, like a tumor. Some- 

 times a tree was quite covered with them. 

 They do not ly on one fide only, but often 

 form a circle round a branch, and even 



round 



