CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1818. 



March 12. Philadelphia. This YANKEE (the inhabitants of 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and 

 New Hampshire, only, are called Yankees) was 

 about the age of SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, and, if he 

 had been dressed in the usual clothes of Sir Francis, 

 would have passed for him. Features, hair, eyes, 

 height, make, manner, look, hasty utterance at 

 times, musical voice, frank deportment, pleasant 

 smile. All the very fac-simile of him. I had some 

 early York cabbage seed and some cauliflower seed 

 in my pocket, which had been sent me from London, 

 in a letter, and which had reached me at Harris- 

 burgh. I could not help giving him a little of each. 



13. Same weather. A fine open day. Rather a cold 

 May-day for England. Came to New York by the 

 steam-boat. Over to this island by another, took 

 a little light waggon, that whisked me home over 

 roads as dry and as smooth as gravel walks in an 

 English bishop s garden in the month of July. 

 Great contrast with the bottomless muds of New 

 Jersey ! As I came along, saw those fields of rye, 

 which were so green in December, now white. Not 

 a single sprig of green on the face of the earth. 

 Found that my man had ploughed ten acres of ground. 

 The frost not quite clean out of the ground. It has 

 penetrated two feet eight inches. The weather here 

 has been nearly about the same as in Pennsylvania ; 

 only less snow, and less rain. 



14. Open weather. Very fine. Not quite so warm. 



15. Same weather. Young chickens. I hear of no other 

 in the neighbourhood. This is the effect of my 

 warm fowl-house ! The house has been supplied 

 with eggs all the winter, without any interruption. 

 I am told, that this has been the case at no other 

 house hereabouts. We have now an abundance of 

 eggs. More than a large family can consume. 

 We send some to market. The fowls, I find, have 

 wanted no feeding except during the snow, or, in 

 the very, very cold days, when they did not come out 

 of their house all the day. A certain proof that they 

 like the warmth. 



1 6. Little frost in the morning. Very fine day. 



17. Precisely same weather. 



1 8. Same weather. 



19. Same weather. 



20. Same weather. Opened several pits, in which I had 

 preserved all sorts of garden plants and roots, and 

 apples. Valuable experiments. As useful in 



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