[56] William Pen, Esq; and his heirs after him. [↑]
[59] See an account of that place in Vol. I. p. 228. [↑]
[61] See Vol. I. p. 247, &c. [↑]
[62] Commonly called Black-heart Cherries. [↑]
[63] That rum is among the spirituous liquors less noxious than any one of the rest, is chiefly owing to the balsamic [[226]]quality it gets from the sugar, which corrects the styptic quality all kinds of brandy and spirituous liquors have. The older the rum is, and the longer it has been kept in a great cask, the more is its stypticity corrected. All which has been lately proved by the clearest experiments, explained and deducted from the most indisputable principles of chymistry, in a pamphlet written by that able chymist Mr. Dossie. F. [↑]
[64] The New-York Sturgeons which I saw this year brought over, had short blunt noses, in which particular they are different from the English ones, which have long noses. F. [↑]
[65] Mr. Kalm was certainly mistaken, by thinking the summits of these mountains without wood, on account of the great degree of heat: for it is a general notion, founded on experience, that the sun operates not so much on the tops of mountains, as in plains or vallies, and the cold often hinders the increase of wood on the summits of high mountains. F. [↑]