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cold nights in a fummer, yet thofe where 

 limeftone lies have commonly one or two 

 every fummer. Frequently the places where 

 the limeftone lies are fituated on a high 

 ground; but they fuffer notwithftanding 

 their fituation ; whilft a little way oft in a 

 lower ground, where no limeftone is to be 

 found, the effects of the cold nights are not 

 felt. Mr. Evans was the firft who made 

 this obfervarion, and 1 have had occafion at 

 different times to ieelhe truth of it, on my 

 travels, as I (ball mention in the fequel. 

 The young hiccory-trees have their leaves 

 killed fooner than other trees, in fuch'a 

 cold night, and the young oaks next,- this 

 has been obferved by other people, and 

 I have found it to be true, in the years 

 1749 and 175c. 



March the nth. Of the o- en us of 

 Wood-peckers, we find here all thole, which 

 Catefby in his firft volume of the Natural 

 Hijiory of Carolina, has drawn and de- 

 fcribed. I {hall only enumerate them, and 

 add one or two of their qualities - 3 but their 

 defcription at large I defer for another oc- 

 cafion. 



Picus principalis, the 'King of the Wood- 

 peckers, is found here, though very fel- 

 dom, and only at a certain feafon. 



F 3 Picus 



