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trees are (truck down, and it looks as if 

 the woods were cut down defignedly j but 

 clofe to the tract the trees receive no hurt. 

 Such is the place which was fhewn to me 

 to-day. It is dangerous to go into the 

 woods where the hurricanes blow ; for the 

 trees fall before one has time to guard 

 himfelf, or make the lead provifion for his 

 fecurity. 



The P enfylvanian Afp was now inTull 

 bloffom. But neither this tree, nor thofe 

 near a-kin to it, mewed their leaves. 



An old countryman anerted that he com- 

 monly fowed a bufhel of rye, on an acre 

 of ground, and got twenty bufhels in re- 

 turn; but from a bufhel of barley he got 

 thirty bufhels. However in that cafe the 

 ground muft be well prepared. Wheat 

 returns about as much as rye. The foil 

 was a clay mixed with fand and mould. 



In the evening I returned*. 



March the 28th. I found a black 

 beetle \ (Scarabcens) with a pentagonal 



oval 



* From Nils Gujiafson, the old Swede. 



f The beetle here defcribed, feems to be the Scarabaus 

 Carolinus, Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 545, and of Drury Illuftra- 

 tions of Nat. Hift. tab. 35, f. z. It is common in Net* 

 Tork, New Jerfey, Penfyl-vania, Maryland, and Carolina, F, 



