CLIMATE, SEASONS, E?C. 



1818. 



Jan. 7. Little frost. Fine warm day. The sun seems loth 

 to quit us. 



8. Same weather. 



9. A harder frost, and snow at night. The fowls, 

 which have been peeping at my ladders for two or 

 three evenings, and partially roosting in their house, 

 made their general entry this evening ! They are 

 the best judges of what is best for them. The 

 turkeys boldly set the weather at defiance, and still 

 roost on the top, the ridge, of the roof of the house. 

 Their feathers prevent their legs from 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 McKEAN, who was then the Chief 

 Justice of that State. The appeal has not yet 

 been successful ; but, as I confidently expect, that 

 it finally will, I shall not, at present, 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 ; 

 reserving 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. Arrive at Philadelphia in the 

 evening. 



14. Same weather. 



15. Same weather. The question eagerly put to me by 

 every one in Philadelphia, is &quot; Don t you think 

 the city greatly improved &quot; They seem to me to 

 confound 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 extent and number of houses 

 since the year 1799. But, after being, for so long a 

 time, familiar with London, every other place 



