TSARS 

 IN &amp;lt;AMSRICA 



CHAPTER I. 



Description of the Situation and Extent of Long Island, and also of 

 the Face of the Country , and an Account of the Climate, Seasons, 

 and Soil. 



ii. LONG ISLAND is situated in what may be called the middle 

 climate of that part of the United States, which, coastwise, extends 

 from Boston to the Bay of Chesapeake. Farther to the South, 

 the cultivation is chiefly by negroes, and farther to the North than 

 Boston is too cold and arid to be worth much notice, though, 

 doubtless, there are to be found in those parts good spots of land 

 and good farmers. Boston is about 200 miles to the North of 

 me, and the Bay of Chesapeake about the same distance to the 

 South. In speaking of the climate and seasons, therefore, an 

 allowance must be made, of hotter or colder, earlier or later, in a 

 degree proportioned to those distances ; because I can speak 

 positively only of the very spot, at which I have resided. But 

 this is a matter of very little consequence ; seeing that every part 

 has its seasons first or last. All the difference is, that, in some 

 parts of the immense space of which I have spoken, there is a 

 little more summer than in other parts. The same crops will, 

 I believe, grow in them all. 



