26 EMIGRATION, OR 



tution, without its burdens, and harassing and restrictive 

 imposts. In the States if I become not a citizen, and take 

 the oath of allegiance, I cannot hold a heritable property ; 

 in fact, I should, as an alien, be treated with suspicion, if 

 not insult ; and to abjure allegiance to all other govern 

 ments, and particularly to the British (as their oath runs), 

 I think no person with any feeling or spirit could, under 

 any circumstances, submit to, while the same advantages 

 could be had without it. 



June 8. Very fine and very warm, thermometer 90 in 

 my sleeping room. I never recollect its being so hot 

 iil England, still there is a pleasant breeze near the water. 

 Have been disposing of part of my luggage, intending to go 

 by the steam boat to Philadelphia in a few days. The dis 

 cipline of the common schools here appears to be very bad, 

 but I believe it is the parents fault in not allowing the 

 tutor to correct their children, or at least very little; indeed 

 they appear to be under too little control, even to their 

 parents, through the principles of democracy perhaps. 



June 10. Still hot, thermometer 92, but a brisk wind. 

 Vinegar and water, sweetened with molasses, is much drank 

 in this hot weather, and called switchel, or &quot; Yankee 

 beverage.&quot; A Yankee is a native of New England, and is 

 synonimous to a Yorkshire bite in England. Drank a 

 glass of lemonade at market, cooled with ice, Id. ; smaller 

 glasses, %d. When walking in the heat of the day without 

 an umbrella to keep off the sun, I perspire excessively, 

 which affects my head, and otherwise makes me uncomfort 

 able. Stepped into Peale s Museum, the proprietor an 

 Englishman : there were a great number of stuffed animals 

 and dried birds, but all of them in a rapid state of decay 

 through insects, for the want of proper knowledge how to 

 preserve them, I suspect. Mr. P. s loquacity informed me 

 how he had duped the natives, by the introduction of a tune 

 intoh is organ called the Berkshire fencibles, as a new tune 

 by the name of the Baltimore volunteers, which gave him 

 a great run. 



June 1 1 and 12. Very hot, thermometer 82 at sun rise, 

 and 99 in the afternoon. 



June 13. Cloudy and cooler, thermometer 88. 



