New jfcrjey, Raccoon. 2 1 1 



fnake had once got the head of one of his 

 hens in its mouth, and was wound feveral 

 times round the body, when he came and 

 killed the fnake. The hen was afterwards 

 as well as ever. 



This fnake is very greedy of milk, and 

 it is difficult to keep it out, when it is 

 once ufed to go into a cellar where milk is 

 kept. It has been feen eating milk out of 

 the fame difh with children, without 

 biting them, though they often gave it 

 blows with the fpoon upon the head, 

 when it was overgreedy. I never heard 

 it hiding. It can raife more than one 

 half of its body from the ground, in or- 

 der to look about her. It fkins every 

 year ; and its fkin is faid to be a remedy 

 againft the cramp, if continually worn 

 about the body. 



The rye was now beginning to flower. 



I have often obferved with aftonifhment, 

 on my travels, the great difference between 

 the plants and the foil, on the two oppo- 

 fite banks of brooks. Sometimes a brook, 

 which one can ftride over, has plants on 

 one bank widely different from thofe on 

 the oppofite bank. Therefore, whenever 

 I came to a great brook or a river, I ex- 

 pected to find plants which I had not met 

 with before. Their feeds are carried down 

 O 2 with 



