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now, it being very pleafant weather ; and 

 though we ftruck on the fands once or twice, 

 yet we got loofe again, and arrived at New 

 York about nine o'clock. Of this town I 

 have given an account in the preceding 

 volume *. 



^w?* the 4th. I found vines in feveral 

 gardens, got from the old countries. They 

 bear annually a quantity of excellent grapes. 

 When the winters are very fevere, they are 

 killed by the froft, and die quite to the 

 ground ; but the next fpring new moots 

 fpring up from the root. 



Strawberries were now fold in abun- 

 dance about the town every day. An En- 

 glifkman from Jamaica afferted, that in that 

 ifland there were no ftrawberries. The 

 fnakes are very fond of ftrawberries. Thofe 

 which they had here were not fo good as> 

 the Sivedifh and Finland ones. 



Red Clover was fown in feveral places 

 on the hills without the town. The coun- 

 try people were now employed in mowing 

 the meadows. Some were already mown 3 

 and the dry clover was put under cover, in 

 order to be carried away the firft op- 

 portunity. 



Cherry-trees were planted in great 

 quantities before the farm-houfes, and along. 



the 



* See Vol. I. p. 24.7, &c. 



