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netrated above four inches deep. But to- 

 day it was quite gone out. This made the 

 foil fo foft, that on riding, even in the 

 woods, the horfe funk in very deep. 



I often enquired among the old Englijh- 

 men and Swedes, whether they had found 

 that any trees were killed in very fevere 

 winters, or had received much hurt. I 

 was anfwered, that young hiccory trees 

 are commonly killed in very cold weather $ 

 and the young black oaks likewife fuffer in 

 the fame manner. Nay fometimes black 

 oaks, five inches in diameter, were killed 

 by the froft in a fevere winter, and fome- 

 times, though very feldom, a lingle mul- 

 berry-tree was killed. Peach-trees very 

 frequently die in a cold winter, and often 

 all the peach-trees in a whole diftrict are 

 killed by a fevere frcflrt. It has been found 

 repeatedly, with regard to thefe trees, that 

 they can ftand the froir. much better on. 

 hills, than in vallies; infomuch, that when 

 the trees in a valley were killed by froftj 

 thofe on a hill were not hurt at all. They 

 arTurcd me that they had never obferved 

 that the black walnut-tree, the faflafrap, 

 and other trees, had been hurt in winter. 

 In regard to a froft in fpring, they had ob- 

 ferved at different times, that a cold night 

 or two happened often after the trees were 

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