2i 6 May 1749. 



any known ufe, and only ferves to attract 

 the e e whilft in flower. 



The Kalmia latifolia was likewife in full 

 bloflbm ut prefent. It rivals the preced- 

 ing one, in the beauty of its colour ; 

 yet though they are confpicuous in 

 regard to the colours and {hape of their 

 floMers, they are no ways remarkable for 

 frnell, fuch as the Magnolia is ; for they 

 have little or no fmell at all. So equally 

 and juftiv does nature diftribute her gifts; 

 no part of the creation has them all, each 

 has its own, and none is abfolutely with- 

 out a (hare of them. 



May the 30th. The Moravian Bre- 

 thren, who arrived in great numbers from 

 Europe, at New York, in May, brought two 

 cop. verted Greenlanders with them. The 

 Moravians who were already fettled in Ame- 

 rica, immediately fent fome of their bre- 

 thren from Philadelphia to the new co- 

 mers, in order to welcome them. Among 

 the~e deputies were two North American 

 Indians, who had been converted to their 

 doctrine, and likewife two South American 

 Indians, from Surinam. Thefe three kinds 

 of converted Indians accordingly met at 

 N w 1 or'k. I had no opportunity of feeing 

 fhem ; but all thofe who had feen them, 

 grid whom I cun veiled with, thought that 



they 



