26 Journal. — January. [Part I. 



he finds more dirt upon the necks and faces of one 

 family of his present neighbours, than he left behind 

 hira upon the skins of all the people in the three parishes 

 of Guildford. However, he would not have found this 

 to be the case in Pennsylvania, and especially in those 

 parts Avhere the Quakers abound ; and, 1 am told, that, 

 in the New England States, the people are as cleanly 

 and as neat as they are in England. The sweetest 

 flowers, when they become putrid, stink the most; and, 

 a nasty woman is the nastiest thing in nature. 



22. Hard frost. My hiisiiiess in Pennsylvania is vrith 

 the legislature. It is sitting at Harrisbwgh. Set off 

 to-day by fetage. Fine country ; fine barns; fine farms. 

 Must speak particula,rly of these in another place. Got 

 to Lancaster. The largest inland town in the United 

 States. A very clean and good town. No beggarly 

 houses. All looks like ease and plenty. 



23. Harder frost, but not very severe. Almost a? 

 cold as the weather was during the six weeks' conti- 

 nuance of the snow, in 1814, in England. 



24. The same weather continues. 



25. A sort of half thaw. Sun warm. HARRiSBURcrf 

 is a new town, close on the left bank of the river Sus- 

 QUBnAxxAH,which is not frozen over.but has large quan- 

 tities of ice floating on its waters. All vegetation, and all 

 appearance of green, gone away, 



26. Mild weather. Hardly any frost. 



27. Thaws. Warm. Tired to death of the tavern 

 at Harrtsburgu, though a very good one. The cloth 

 spread three times a day. Fish, fowl, meat, cakes, eggs, 

 sausages ; all sorts of things in abundance. Board, 

 lodging, civil but not servile waiting on, beer, tea, 

 coffee, chocolate. Price, a dollar and a quarter a day. 

 Here vre meet altogether: senators, judges, lawyers, 

 tradesmen, farmers, and all. 1 am weary of the ever- 

 lasting loads of meat. Weary of being idle. How few 

 such days have I spent in my whole life ! 



28. Thaw and rain. My business not coming on, I 

 went to a country tavern, hoping there to get a room to 

 myself, in which to read my English papers, and sit 

 down to Avriting. I am now at M' Allister's tavern, si- 

 tuated at the foot of the first ridge of mountains j or 



