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jSugar and treacle they had in abundance, 

 as far as he could remember ; and rum for- 

 merly bore a more moderate price. 



From the accounts of this old Swede I 

 concluded, that before the Englifh fettled 

 here, they followed wholly the cuftoms of 

 Old Sweden ; but after the Englifi had 

 been in the country for fome time, the 

 Swedes began gradually to follow their 

 cuftoms. When this Swede was bu: a boy, 

 there were two Swedifh fmiths here, who 

 made hatchets, knives, and fcythes, exactly 

 like the Swedifh ones, and made them (harper 

 than they can be got now. The hatchets 

 now in ufe are in the Englijh way, with a 

 broad edge ; and their handles are very 

 narrow. Almoft all the Swedes made ufe 

 of baths ; and they commonly bathed every 

 Saturday. They celebrated Chriftmas with 

 feveral forts of games, and with feveral pe- 

 culiar dimes, as is ufual in Sweden ; all 

 which is now, for the greater!: part, left off. 

 In the younger years of this Swede, they 

 made a peculiar kind of carts here. They 

 fawed thick pieces of liquid-amber trees, 

 and made ufe of two of them for the fore- 

 moft wheels, and of two more for the hind- 

 mod. With thofe carts they brought home 

 their wood. Their fledges were at that 



time 



