New y^rfey, Raccoon. 2$ 



is rifen by a heavy rain. When a tree 

 falls acrofs the road, it is feldom cut off, 

 tg keep the road clear, but the people go 

 round it. This they can eafily do, lince 

 the ground is very even, and without 

 fiones ; has no underwood cr (hrubs, and 

 the trees on it (land much afunder. Hence 

 the roads here have fo many bendings. 



The farms are mofl of them fingle, and 

 you feldom meet with even two together, 

 except in towns, or places which are in- 

 tended for towns ; therefore there are but 

 few villages. Each farm has its corn-fields, 

 its woods, its paftures and meadows. This 

 may perhaps have contributed fomething 

 towards the extirpation of wolves, that 

 they every where met with houfes, and 

 people who fired at them. Two or three 

 farm-houfes have generally a pafture or a 

 wood in common, and there are feldom 

 more together ; but mod of them have their 

 own grounds divided from the others. 



December the 18th. All perfons who 

 intend to be married, mull: either have 

 their banns publifhed three times from the 

 pulpit, or get a licence from the governor. 

 The banns of the poorer fort of people only 

 are publifhed, and all thofe who are a little 

 above them get a licence from the gover- 

 nor. In that licence he declares that he 

 has examined the affair, and found no ob- 



itacles 



