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ropean trees do not expect, after a confide- 

 rable degree of warmth, any fuch cold 

 nights as will kill their flowers -, for, in the 

 cold countries, there feldom happen any 

 hot days fucceeded by fuch cold nights as 

 will hurt the flowers confiderably. On the 

 contrary, the wild trees in this country are 

 directed by experience, (if I may fo fpeak) 

 not to trull to the firft warmth ; but they 

 wait for a greater heat, when they are 

 already fafe from cold nights. Therefore, 

 it happens often, that the flowers of the 

 European trees are killed by the frofts here ; 

 but the native trees are feldom hurt, though 

 they be of the fame kind with the European 

 ones. This is a manifeft propf pf the wif- 

 dom of the Creator. 



May the 5th. Early this morning I 

 went to RapaapOy which is a great village, 

 whofe farms ly all fcattered. It was inhabited 

 merely by Swedes, and not a fingle Englijh- 

 man, or people of any other nation, lived in 

 it : therefore they have preferved their na- 

 tive Swedijh tongue, and mixed but few 

 Eng/ijh words with it. The intention of 

 my journey was partly to fee the place, and 

 to collect plants and other natural curiofi- 

 jties there ; and partly to find the places 

 where the White Cedar, or Cuprejjus tbyoides, 

 grows, 



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