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gles of the White Pine. Some are dated with 

 tiles from Ho/land, becaufe the clay of this 

 neighbourhood is not reckoned fit for tiles. 

 P*ioft of thehoufes are built in the old way, 

 with the gable- end towards the frreet ; a few 

 excepted, which were lately built in the 

 manner now uied. A great number of houfes 

 were built like thofe of New Brunfwick, 

 which I have defcribed * $ the gable-end 

 being built, towards the ft recti of bricks, 

 and all the other walls of planks. The 

 outride of the houfes is never covered with 

 lime or mortar, nor have I feen it practifed 

 in any North- American towns which I have 

 viiited ; and the walls do not feem to be 

 damaged by the air. The gutters on the 

 roofs reach almoft to the middle of the 

 frxeet. This preferves the walls from being 

 damaged by the rain ; but is extremely 

 difagreeable in rainy weather for the people 

 in the ftreets, there being hardly any means 

 of avoiding the water from the gutters. 

 The ftreet-doors are generally in the mid-* 

 die of the houfes ; and on both fides are 

 feats, on which, during fair weather, the 

 people fpend almoft the whole day, efpe- 

 cially on thofe which are in the fhadow of 

 the houfes. In the evening thefe feats are 

 covered with people of both fexes ; but this 

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* See Vol. I. p. 228, &c, 



