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kernels were plump and juicy, yet they, by this time, 
were turned brown and rancid , by imbibing the 
Jleams arifing from the pitch and rodn, and were ren- 
dered unfit for vegetation. 
It may pofiibly be remarked, that it is no uncom- 
mon thing to receive the acorns of oaks from mod of 
the provinces of North America in a growing date in 
January, and even in February ; and therefore it mav 
be afked, why it fhould require more care to fend 
acorns of our growth thither % 
The reafon of this appears to me, that as the dim- 
mer heats of thofe provinces by much exceed ours j 
fo confequently their juices being higher maturated , 
are not fo liable to fhrivel and decay as ours are ; 
which, experience fhews, are more watery , and le/'s 
oily : tho’, perhaps, if both kinds were packed up in 
a dry , foapy earth , and could be carried at a cool fea- 
Jcn of the year, I mean the winter months, they 
might equally fucceed ; but, in this kind of weather, 
we have Jeldom an opportunity to fend them, fo as to 
expedt their arrival before the weather, in the fouth- 
ern parts of North America, begins to grow too warm, 
as the fhips feldom arrive there till April. 
The chefnut, next to the acorn, being the mod 
difficult to preferve found during the courfe of one 
feafon, or a whole year, on the z^d of February 
175-9, I procured a parcel of Spanifio chefnut s, jud as 
they were imported, many of which were founder 
than they generally are fo late in the feafon : thefe I 
divided into jour parcels , and put each parcel into a 
fmall earthen jar t involving them in the following 
fubdances : 
