CLIMATE, SEASONS, EfC. 



roses, no cowslips, no blue-bells, no daffodils, which, as if it were 

 not enough for them to charm the sight and the smell, must have 

 names, too, to delight the ear. All these are wanting in America. 

 Here are, indeed, birds, which bear the name of robin, blackbird, 

 thrush, and goldfinch ; but, alas ! the thing at Westminster has, 

 in like manner, the name of parliament, and speaks the voice of the 

 people, whom it pretends to represent, in much about the same 

 degree that the black-bird here speaks the voice of its namesake 

 in England. 



23. Of health, I have not yet spoken, and, though it will be a 

 subject of remark in another part of my work, it is a matter of too 

 deep interest to be wholly passed over here. In the first place, 

 as to myself, I have always had excellent health ; but, during a 

 year, in England, I used to have a cold or two ; a trifling sore 

 throat ; or something in that way. Here, I have neither, though 

 I was more than two months of the winter travelling about, and 

 sleeping in different beds. My family have been more healthy 

 than in England, though, indeed, there has seldom been any 

 serious illness in it. We have had but one visit from any Doctor. 

 Thus much, for the present, on this subject. I said, in the second 

 Register I sent home, that this climate was not so good as that of 

 England. Experience, observation, a careful attention to real 

 facts, have convinced me that it is, upon the whole, a better climate ; 

 though I tremble lest the tools of the Boroughmongers should cite, 

 this as a new and most flagrant instance of inconsistency. England] 

 is my country, and to England I shall return. I like it best, and 

 shall always like it best ; but, then, in the word England, many 

 things are included besides climate and soil and seasons, and 

 eating and drinking. 



24. In the Second Part of this work, which will follow the first 

 Part in the course of two months, I shall take particular pains to 

 detail all that is within my knowledge, which I think likely to be 

 useful to persons who intend coming to this country from England. 

 I shall take every particular of the expence of supporting a family, 

 and show what are the means to be obtained for that purpose, and 

 how they are to be obtained. My intending to return to England 

 ought to deter no one from coming hither ; because, I was resolved, 

 if I had life, to return, and I expressed that resolution before I 

 came away. But if there are good and virtuous men, who can 

 do no good there, and who, by coming hither can withdraw the 

 fruits of their honest labour from the grasp of the Borough tyrants, 

 I am bound, if I speak of this country at all, to tell them the real 

 truth ; and this, as far as I have gone, I have now done. 



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