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weather at defiance, and still roost on the top, the ridge, 

 of the roof, of the house. Their feathers prevent their 

 legs i'rom being frozen, and so it is with all poultry ; 

 but, still, a house must, one would think, be better than 

 the open air at this season. 



10. Snow, but sloppy. I am now at New York on 

 my way to Pennsylvania. N. B. This journey into 

 Pennsylvania had, for its principal object, an appeal to 

 the justice of the Legislature of that state for redress for 

 great loss and injury sustained by me, nearly twenty 

 years ago, in consequence of the tyranny of one 

 M'Kean, who was then the Chief Justice of that State. 

 The appeal has not yet been successful ; but, as I con- 

 fidently expect, that it finally will, I shall not, at pre- 

 sent, say any thing more on the subject. My journey 

 was productive of much and various observation, and, I 

 trust, of useful knowledge. But, in this place, I shall 

 do little more than give an account of the weather ; re- 

 serving for the Second Part, accounts of prices of 

 land, &c. which will there come under their proper 

 heads. 



11. Frost but not hard. Now at New York. 



12. Very sharp frost. Set off for Philadelphia. 

 Broke down on the road in New Jersey. 



13. Very hard frost still. Found the Delaware, 

 which divides New Jersey from Pennsylvania, frozen 

 over. Good roads now. Arrived at Philadelphia in 

 the evening. 



J 4. Same whether. 



15. Same weather. The question eagerly put to me 

 by every one in Philadelphia is, " Don't you think the 

 " city greatly improved?" They seem to me to con- 

 found augmentation with improvement. It always was 

 a fine city, since I first knew it ; and it is very greatly 

 augmented. It has, I believe, nearly doubled its ex- 

 tent and number of houses since the year 1799. But, 

 after being, for so long a time, familiar with London, 

 every other place appears little. After living within a 

 few hundreds of yards of Westminster-Hall and the 

 Abbey Church and the Bridge, and looking from my 

 own windows into St. James's Park, all other buildings 

 and spots appear mean and insignificant. I went to 



