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Title: 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
Year: 1775 (1770s)
Authors: Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779 Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
Subjects: Natural history -- Canada Scientific expeditions Natural history -- United States United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : The editor
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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which they all difappeared,or advanced further into the country, fromwhence they came. I mail fpeak of themmore particularly in another place. March the 7th. Several people toldme, that it was a certain fign of bad wea-ther here when a thunder-florin arofe in thefouth or fouth weft, if it fpread to the eaftand afterwards to the north : but that onthe contrary, when it did not fpread at all,or when it fpread both eaft and weft,thouph it fhould rife in fouth or fouth weft,yet it would prognofticate fair weather. To-day it was heard in fouth weft, but it didnot fpread at all. See the meteorologicalobfervations, at the end of this volume. Till now the froft had continued in theground, fo that if any one had a mind todig a hole he was forced to cut it throughwith a pick-ax* However it had not pe-netrated * Of this Pigeon of PaJJage we have given here a plate,tub. ii. taken from a parcel of birds, lately brought fromAmerica, of which we were favoured with a fine fpe<-cimen. F. OF ILUNOI
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New Jerfey, Raccoon, 8% hetrated above four inches deep. But to-day it was quite gone out. This made thefoil fo foft, that on riding, even in thewoods, the horfe funk in very deep. I often enquired among the old EngHJh-fnen and Swedes, whether they had foundthat any trees were killed in very feverewinters, or had received much hurt. Iwas anfwered, that young hiccory treesare commonly killed in very cold weather ;and the young black oaks likewife furrer inthe fame manner. Nay fometimes blackoaks, five inches in diameter, were killedby the froft in a fevere winter, and fome-times, though very feldom, a fingle mul-berry-tree was killed. Peach-trees veryfrequently die in a cold winter, and oftenall the peach-trees in a whole diftridl arekilled by a fevere froft. It has been foundrepeatedly, with regard to thefe trees, thatthey can fland the frofl much better onhills, than in vallies; infomuch, that whenthe trees in a valley were killed by froft,thofe on a hill were not hurt at all. Theyaf

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