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that it was feared he would not recover, 

 However, he became quite well again, and 

 at the fame time got new ftrength in his 

 eyes ; fo that he has been able to read 

 without fpe&acles fince that time. 



The houfes which the Swedes built when 

 they firrl: fettled here, were very bad. The 

 whole houfe confifted of one little room, 

 the door of which was fo low, that one was 

 obliged to ftoop in order to get in. As 

 they had brought no glafs with them, they 

 were obliged to be content with little holes, 

 before which a moveable board was fatt- 

 ened. They found no mofs, or at leaft none 

 which could have been ferviceable in flop- 

 ping up holes or cracks in the walls. They 

 were therefore forced to clofe them, both 

 without and within, with clay. The chim- 

 nies were made in a corner, either of grey 

 fand, a ftone, or (in places where no ftone was 

 to be got) of mere clay, which they laid 

 very thick in one corner of the houfe. The 

 ovens for baking were likewife in the rooms. 

 Formerly the Swedes had proper ftables for 

 the cattle ; but after the Englifh came hither, 

 and made no peculiar buildings for their 

 cattle, the Swedes likewife left off making 

 ftables. 



Before the Englijh came to fettle here* 

 the Swedes could not get as many cloaths as 



they 



