Peter Kalm
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 406
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Excerpt from Travels Into North America, Vol. 1 of 2: 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 From the earlier times down to our own It would be a kind of injuftice to the pd give all thi o the reader. Defcribing md its curio ba'ndry we omitted. Pa age from England to no circumftance interefi' to any other part of lite From his arrival at Philadelphia, we give the ori large, except where we omitted fome circumfiances, viz. The the art of making apple ore of the fame nature, which it their novelty. Of the Swedifb meafure its foot isgro the Eng/if}: foot, as I I 34. To 13 go. For his meteorological obfervations he ed the thermometer of Prof. Gel/fur, made ufe of in Sweden, and his was own making; the interval from the point of freez the point of boiling water, is equally di n this thermometer into 100 parts. In the names of plants, we have chie y employed after his directions the Linnmzn names, in the laft edi Spec. Vol. But as his defcriptions of animals, plants, and minerals are very fhort, he promifes to give them at large fome time hence in a Latin work. HE gives you his obfervations as they occurred day after day, which makes him a faithful rela' ter, notwithfianding it takes away all elegance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."