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common, and possibly the otlier species, but I did not distin- 

 guish it. 



Golden-winged woodpeckers. — -Very common. 



Picus pileatus. — Not common. 



Picus erythrocephalns. — Very common on the Utica and 

 Trenton roads. 



Picus villosus, and Carolinus. — Not very common. 



The Httle Picus puhescens comes about the house. Just 

 before I left, Mr. Goodhere and myself watched one picking 

 the larva of a ^elandria off the leaves ; he would hang to a 

 twig or a leaf, back downwards, and then throw himself to 

 another, &c. 



Sittw Carolinensis and Canadensis, are not at all numerous. 



Humming birds are still about. 



Chapter VI. 



[Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigli, 

 Columbia, Charlestown. — Ed.] 



Washington, 22d November, 1838 — All the way from New 

 York to Philadelphia, the snow covered the ground. It was 

 very foggy going down the Delaware river: we twice struck 

 other vessels. The second might have been a serious affair ; 

 we stove in her bows, and one man was knocked overboard : 

 I doubt not but they got the vessel safe to shore, but she 

 leaked very fast. The steam-boat took us to Wilmington. 

 Proceeding from Wilmington by railroad towards Baltimore, 

 we crossed the Susquehanna in a steam-boat. The creeks 

 afterwards are crossed by long bridges. The country here 

 appears poor ; the corn was still out in many of the fields. 

 Here the arbor vitce, or " cedars," as they are called, give 

 place to the red cedars, of which there are entire woods. The 

 numerous scattered ones in the fields, and the little clumps 

 near the houses, have a singular effect, from their tall conical 

 form. The woods contain a dense undergrowth of Kalmia: and 

 Rhododendra. On this railroad, the rate of travelling is some- 

 times thirty miles an hour. The railroad enters Baltimore 

 through the suburb called Jones's Fall, the part which suffered 

 so much from the flood this spring. 



