CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1818. 



Jan. 15. pigeons that I, used to feed out of my hands, the 

 last kind words and tears of my gentle and tender 

 hearted and affectionate mother ! I hastened back 

 into the room ! If I had looked a moment longer, 

 I should have dropped. When I came to reflect, 

 zvhat a change I I looked down at my dress. What 

 a change ! What scenes I had gone through ! 

 How altered my state ! I had dined the day before 

 at a secretary of state s in company with Mr. Pitt, 

 and had been waited upon by men in gaudy liveries ! 

 I had had nobody to assist me in the world. No 

 teachers of any sort. Nobody to shelter me from 

 the consequence of bad, and no one to counsel me 

 to good, behaviour. I felt proud. The distinctions 

 of rank, birth, and wealth, all became nothing in 

 my eyes ; and from that moment (less than a month 

 after my arrival in England) I resolved never to 

 bend before them. 



1 6. Same weather. Went to see my old Quaker-friends 

 at Bustleton, and particularly my beloved friend 

 JAMES PAUL, who is very ill. 



17. Returned to Philadelphia. Little frost and a little 

 snow. 



i8.^| Moderate frost. Fine clear sky. 



19. L The Philadelphians are cleanly, a quality which 



20. r they owe chiefly to the Quakers. But, after being 



21 . J long and recently familiar with the towns in Surrey 



and Hampshire, and especially with Guildford, 

 Alton, and Southampton, no other towns appear 

 clean and neat, not even Bath or Salisbury, which 

 last is much about upon a par, in point of cleanliness, 

 with Philadelphia ; and, Salisbury is deemed a very 

 cleanly place. Blandford and Dorchester are clean ; 

 but, I have never yet seen any thing like the towns 

 in Surrey and Hampshire. If a Frenchman, born 

 and bred, could be taken up and carried blindfolded 

 to Guildford, I wonder what his sensations would be, 

 when he came to have the use of his sight ! Every 

 thing near Guildford seems to have received an 

 influence from the town. Hedges, gates, stiles, 

 gardens, houses inside and out, and the dresses of 

 the people. The market day at Guildford is a 

 perfect shozv of cleanliness. Not even a carter 

 without a clean smock-frock and closely-shaven 

 and clean-washed face. Well may Mr. Birkbeck, 

 who came from this very spot, think the people 

 dirty in the western country ! I ll engage he finds 

 more dirt upon the necks and faces of one family 

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