diameter
and the number of concentric rings 325, so that it must
have been a sapling in the days of Queen Elizabeth.

"I suppose we shall have the Proprietor's Town on the west side,
tho' the New England People are all settled on the other side. The
whole Country abounds with Game; there is likewise plenty of Moose
weighing from 1000 to 1500 lbs. each, fatt and finer than beef,
which you may kill every day. Wild fowl of all kinds, cocks,
snipes, and partridges are so plenty that the Gentlemen who was
with me swore that it was no sport, as we could shoot 3 or 4 at a
shot. An Indian made me a present of a pair of horns of a small
Moose as he called them, for he assured me that some was twice as
heavey. These measured 5 feet and 2 inches and weighed 33-1/2 lb.,
judge you the biggness of the owner.

"Upon the Interval land you have a long kind of Grass[80] which
the Cattle in that country fatten themselves upon. I never in my
life saw fatter beef than one I saw killed there, & the New
England People vowed that the heiffers of the same breed that had
a calf in Boston at 3 years old came in at 2 years at St. Johns,
so much they improved in growth and Wantonness as they called it.

[80] This grass still grows naturally on the St. John River
intervals, and is known to the farmers as "blue-joint."

"Their Hoggs and Sheep they keep on the Islands, which are
overflowed generally when the River brakes up which is commonly
about the middle of April. This overflowing leaves these Islands
so rich that the Hoggs grow fatt by eating Ground nuts without
any other food in summer (in our Grant we have some of these
Islands) nor do they put up their Horses in the Winter, except
those that work, tho' you may cut any quantity of Grass. Can I say
more of the Soil, Trees, situation, &c.? Be assured it is all
True."

"The fish is the next thing. This River abounds with all sorts of
small fry, Trout, Salmon, Bass, Whitefish & Sturgeon. The Bass is
ketcht in Wiers just under the Point below the Fort, so that good
voyages may be made in that branch; all the expence is in making
the Wiers, and as to Sturgeon they are more remarkably plenty than
any place upon the Continent, and if there was persons that
understood pickling them it would be a very profitable undertaking
and fetches ready money in London."

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