. Travels into North America : 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. ad already largegrapes ; we faw them abundant all thisday, and during all the time that we keptto the river Hudfon, on the hills, along theihores, and on fome little iflands in theriver. The ivhite-b. ckdMaize-thieves appearednow and then, flying amongft the bufhes :their note is fine, and they ar
. Travels into North America : 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. ad already largegrapes ; we faw them abundant all thisday, and during all the time that we keptto the river Hudfon, on the hills, along theihores, and on fome little iflands in theriver. The ivhite-b. ckdMaize-thieves appearednow and then, flying amongft the bufhes :their note is fine, and they are not fo largeas the black maize-thieves, fOriolns Thee-nicens). We faw them near New Tork, forthe firft time. We found a Water-beech tree (Platanusoccidentalis) cut down near the road, mea-furing about five feet in diameter. This day, and for fome days afterwards,we met with iflands in the river. Thelarger ones were cultivated, and turned intocorn-fields and meadows. We walked about five Knglifh miles alongthe river to-day, and found the ground,during that time, very uniform, and confid-ing of pure earth. I did not meet with a(ingle (lone on the fields. The Red Maple,the Water-beech, the Water-afp, the wildPrune-tree, the Sumach, the Elm, the wildVines, and feme fipecies of Willows, were the. Between Albany end Saratoga, 275 the trees which we met with on the rifin^mores of the river, where fome Afparagus(Afparagus officinalis) grew wild. We pafted the night about fix miles fromAlbany, in a countrymans cottage. weft fide of the river we faw feveraihoufes, one after another, inhabited bythe defendants of the firft Dutch fettlers,who lived by cultivating their half an Englijh mile beyond ourlodgings, was the place where the tideflops in the river Hud/on, there being onlyfmall and fhallow ft reams above it. Atthat place they catch a good many forts offifh in the river. The barns Were generally built in theDutch way, as I have before defcribedthem * ; for in t
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