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tiver, at the mouth of the Scioto, about twenty-six miles south 
of Piketon, where the ground was entirely settled, and the 
innkeeper where I lodged, was making his garden, sowing his 
sallad seed, and planting his peas. This journey was perfor- 
med in three days, and in travelling only one hundred and fif- 
teen miles from north to south, this extraordinary difference of 
climate was observed. 
A traveller may leave Portsmouth when the farmer is be- 
ginning to hoe his corn the first time, and travel with good speed 
to Delaware, and find the husbandman just beginning to plant. 
Instances which have fallen within my own personal obser- 
vation might be multiplied toa great extent, but a few may 
suffice, uctag. gs8t —empiieee giant Eres 
Generally speaking, there is a difference in the beginning 
and ending of the warm season of about two weeks between 
Portsmouth and Delaware, or of three weeks between the for- 
mer place and Lower Sandusky. 
In relation to the warmth of the climate, 1 will state two 
other facts, originating, as I believe, in the’prevalence of the 
Southern current of air from the Mexican Gulf along the Ohio 
river, 
First, In the summer months the paroquet ascends the Scio- 
‘0 more than one hundred miles from its mouth, and until with- 
ina few years past, wintered at miller’s Bottom, and at other 
Places along the banks of the Ohio, near its great southern 
nd in latitude 38° north, in Gallia and Lawrence counties, 
in the'state of Ohio. I have seen them there in all. the win- 
‘er months in considerable numbers, but few however now 
Winter there ; and probably if the cold north-western current 
of air from the great lakes becomes more and more prevalent 
in the winter months, these birds will migrate altogether to a 
ere southern clime. a 
Are these birds found as far to the north on the east side of 
the Alleghany by at. least three degrees? Monseiur Volney, 
Mir. Jefferson, and others, say not. It has been denied that 
is fact proves any thing more than that this bird frequented 
se parts in quest of its favorite food. This food is grass 
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