. 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; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. New jferfiy, Raccoon. 201 lued in e. All rly this than it not un- them in heir de- h of po- ods, and 1 (right- sr, high and de- of them. v of this the Swe- rees, and art down and fuck till they ground, d fallo
. 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; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. New jferfiy, Raccoon. 201 lued in e. All rly this than it not un- them in heir de- h of po- ods, and 1 (right- sr, high and de- of them. v of this the Swe- rees, and art down and fuck till they ground, d fallow [ommonly about about an inch wide; they went almoft perpendicularly into the earth, and were made by dung-beetlesr or by great worms, which are made ufe of for angling. The dung-beetles had dug very deep into the ground, thro* horfe-dung, tho* it lay on the hardeft road, fo that a great heap of earth lay near it. Thcfe holes were after- wards occupied by other infedls, efpecially grafshoppers, fGrylli) and Cicada; for by digging thefe holes up, I commonly found one or more young ones of thefe infe(fls, which had not yet got their perfedt fize. May the 19th. This morning I left Racccon, a parifh in the country called New Sweden, and which is yet chiefly inhabited by Swedes, in order to proceed in my tra- vels to the North. I firfl intended to fet out with the beginning of April, but for feveral reafons this was not advifeable. No leaves were come out at that time, and hardly any flowers appeared. I did not know what flowers grew here in fpring j for the autumnal plants are different from the vernal ones. The Swedes had this winter told me the oeconomical and medical ufes of many plants, to which thay gave names un- known to me : they could not then (hew me thofe plants on account of the feafon, and by their deficient and erroneous de- 5 fcriptioas. 3 Ui ^i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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