28 JotTBNAL. — February, [Part I. 



9. Sharper. They say, that the thermometer is down 

 to 10 degrees beloiv notiyht. 



10. A little milder ; but very cold indeed. The River 

 completely frozen over, and sleighs and foot passengers 

 crossing in all directions. 



1 1. AVent back again to Harrisbnrgh, Mild frost. 



12. Not being able to bear the idea of dancing at- 

 tendance, came to Lancaster, in order to see more of 

 this pretty town. A very fine Tavern (Slaymaker's) ; 

 room to myself; excellent accommodations. Warm 

 fires. Good and clean beds. Civil but not servile, 

 landlord. The eating still more overdone than at Har- 

 risburgh. Never saw such profusion. 1 have made a 

 bargain with the landlord : he is to give me a dish of 

 chocolate a da}"^, instead of dinner. Frost, but mild. 



13. Rain. — A real rain, but rather cold. 



14. A complete day of rain. 



15. A hard frost ; much about like a hard frost in the 

 naked parts of Wiltshire. — Mr. Huljie joined me on 

 his vpay to Philadelphia from the city of Washington. 



16. A hard frost. — Lancaster is a pretty place. No 

 Jiiie buildings ; but no ?neau ones. Nothing splendid 



and nothing beggarly. The people of this towTi seem to 

 have had the prayer of Hagar granted them : " Give 

 me, O Lord, neidier poverty nor riches." Here are 

 none of those poor, wretched habitations, which sicken 

 the sight at the out-skirts of cities and towns in England ; 

 those abodes of the poor creatures, who have been 

 reduced to beggai'y by the cruel extortions of the rich 

 and powerful, xlnd, this remark applies to all the towns 

 of America that I have ever seen. This is a fine part 

 of America. Big Barns, and modest dw elling houses. 

 Barns of sf one, a hnndred feet long a.\\d forty icide, with 

 two floors, and raised roads to go into them, so that the 

 wagons go into the Jirst floor ttp-stairs. Below are 

 stables, stalls, pens, and all sorts of conveniences. Up- 

 stairs are rooms for threshed corn and grain ; for tackle, 

 for meal, for all sorts of things. In the front (South) of 

 the barn is the cattle yard. These are very fine build- 

 ings. And, then, all about them looks so comfortable, 

 and gives such manifest proofs of ease, plenty, and hap- 

 piness I 3uch is the country of William Pen.n's set- 



