. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. i88 November 1748. i. I â¢i"ll k mentioned. The coaft oi New York had al. iready European inhabitants for a conliderablc time, yet no lobfters were to be met with on
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. i88 November 1748. i. I â¢i"ll k mentioned. The coaft oi New York had al. iready European inhabitants for a conliderablc time, yet no lobfters were to be met with on that coaft ; and though the people filhed ever fo often, they could never find any figns of lobfters being in this part of the fea : they were therefore continually brought in great well-boats from New England^ where they arc plentiful; but it happened that one of thefe well-boats broke in pieces near Hellgate, about <en Eriglijh miles from New Tork, and all the lobfters in it got off. Since that time they have fo multiplied in this part of the fea, that they are now caught in the greateft abun- dance. Nov. I ft. A KIND of cold fever, which the Englijh in this country call Fever and J^gue, is very common in feveral parts of the Englijh colonies. There are, however, other parts, where the people have never felt it. I will in the fequel defcribe the fymptoms of this difeafe at large. Several of the moft confidcr- able inhabitants of this town affured me, that this difeafe was not near fo common in New York, as it is in Penfyhania, where ten were feized by it, to one in the former pro- vince; therefore they were of opinion, that! this difeafe was occalioned by the vapours arifing from ftagnant frefti water, from marflies,] and from rivers ; for which reafon thofe pro- vinces, fituated on the fea ftiore, could not bcl fo much affedled by it. However the carelefs-| nefs with which people eat quantities of me- lons, water melons, peaches, ^nd other juicyl fruit,! ".â l-'.i
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