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for the roots to fupport, till it comes to the 

 point, when it can no longer be kept up- 

 right, which may as well happen in the 

 midft of a calm night as at any other time. 

 When the wind blows hard, it is reckoned 

 very dangerous to fleep or walk in the 

 woods, on account of the many trees which 

 fall in them; and even when it is very 

 calm, there is fome danger in pafling 

 under very great and old trees. I was 

 told, in feveral parts of America, that the 

 ftorms or hurricanes fometimes only pafs 

 over a fmall part of the woods, and tear 

 down the trees in it ; and I have had op- 

 portunities of confirming the truth of this 

 obfervation, by finding places in the forefts, 

 where almoft all the trees were thrown 

 down, and lay all in one direction. 



Tea is differently efteemed by different 

 people ; and I think we would be as well, 

 and our purfes much better, if we were 

 both without tea and coffee. However, I 

 muff be impartial, and mention in praife of 

 tea, that if it be ufeful, it muff certainly 

 be fo in fummer, on fuch journeys as mine, 

 through a defart country, where one cannot 

 carry wine or other liquors, and v/here the 

 water is generally unfit for ufe, as being full 

 of infects. In fuch cafes, it is very reliili- 

 ing when boiled, and tea is drunk with it ; 



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