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YEAR'S RESIDENCE, 



CHAP. I. 



Description of the Situation and Extent of 

 Long Island, and also of the Face of the 

 Country, and an account of the Climate, Sea 

 sons, and Soil. 



LONG ISLAND is situated in. what may b& called 

 the middle climate of that part of the United 

 States, which, coast^vis, > extoidSi,fKptii;B^^ton 

 to the Bay of Chesapeake. Farther to the 

 South, the cultivation is chiefly by negroes, and 

 farther to the North than Boston is too cold 

 and arid to be worth much notice, though, 

 doubtless, there are to be found in those parts 

 good spots of land and good farmers. Boston 

 is about 200 miles to the North of me, and 

 the Bay of Chesapeake about the same distance 

 to the South. In speaking of the climate and 

 seasons, therefore, an allowance must be made, 

 of hotter or colder, earlier or later, in a degree 

 proportioned to those distances ; because I can 

 speak positively only of the very spot, at which 

 I have resided. But this is a matter of very 



