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Travels into North America, Volume 2 (of 3)

Chapter 1: 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.
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The volume offers an 18th-century traveler's systematic account of colonial North American settlements, combining natural history, agricultural practice, and social observation. It attributes rapid population growth to easy access to uncultivated land, low levies, and early marriage, illustrated through local family records. Detailed naturalist notes describe periodic swarms and caterpillar outbreaks, grass-worm infestations, and their cyclical damage to trees and crops. Domestic nuisances receive attention as well, with descriptions of clothes-eating moths, fleas, crickets, and bedbugs and their effects on household goods and animals. Interwoven with these reports are reflections on settlement patterns, farming methods, and contrasts with European conditions.

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Title: Travels into North America, Volume 2 (of 3)

Author: Pehr Kalm

Translator: Johann Reinhold Forster

Release date: November 12, 2023 [eBook #72103]

Language: English

Original publication: Warrington / London: William Eyres, 1770

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRAVELS INTO NORTH AMERICA, VOLUME 2 (OF 3) ***

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.

Enriched with a Map, several Cuts for the Illustration of Natural History, and some additional Notes.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
Printed for the EDITOR;
And Sold by T. Lowndes, in Fleet-street,
MDCCLXXI.

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