. 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. uropean ex- ' one hun- ^ng cuflom a man dies, » or fo that at little (he that, there uft be mar- t. By that er deceafed ^hich they iged to pay 5 left them s, keeping laws
. 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. uropean ex- ' one hun- ^ng cuflom a man dies, » or fo that at little (he that, there uft be mar- t. By that er deceafed ^hich they iged to pay 5 left them s, keeping laws of the i as fhe is e deceafed ch the fe- clergymen ' a woman /e, and fo rs kept in 3 given by 2wife often he Englijh colonies ] wing rela- dreis than eafed huf- 3 met her lid, before them his bj'ide I New Jerfty, Raccoon. 535 I bride; and put them on her with his own hands. It feems he faid that he lent the deaths, left, if I he had faid he gave them, the creditors of the lirft hufband fhould come and take them from her j pretending, that (he was looked upon as I the relia of her firft hulband, before fhe was married to the fecond. Dec. 21 ft. It feems very probable, from the following obfervations, that long before the ar* rival of the Swedes, there have been Europeans in this province; and, in the fequel, we (hall give more confirmations of this opinion. The fame old Maons Keen, whom I have already mentioned before, told me repeatedly, that, on the arrival of the Swedes in the laft century, and on their making a fettlement, called Helfuzgburg, on the banks of the Delaware, fomewhat below the place where Salem is now lituated -, they found, at the depth of twenty feet, fome wells, inclofed with walls. ^ This could not be a work of the native Americans, or Indians, as bricks were en- tirely unknown to them when the Europeans iirft fettled here, at the end of the fifteenth cen^ tury; and they ftilj lefs knew how to make ufe of them. The wells were, at that time, on the land ',
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