CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 51 



1818. 



Jan. (5. Such another frost at night, but a 



thaw in the middle of the day. 



7. Little frost. Fine warm day. The 

 sun seems loth to quit us. 



8. Same Weather. 



9. A harder frost, and snow at night. 

 The fowls, which have been peeping 

 at my ladders for two or three even 

 ings, and partially roosting in their 

 house, made their general entry this 

 evening ! They are the best judges of 

 what is best for them. The turkeys 

 boldly set the weather at defiance, 

 and still roost on the top, the ridge, 

 of the roof, of the house. Their 

 feathers prevent their legs from being 

 frozen, and so it is with all poultry ; 

 but, still, a house must, one would 

 think, be better than the open air 

 at this season. 



10i SnoW, but sloppy. I am now at 

 New York on my way to Pennsylva 

 nia. N.B. This journey into Penn 

 sylvania had, for its principal ob 

 ject, an appeal to the justice of the 

 Legislature of that State for redress 

 fbr great loss and injury sustained 

 by me, nearly twenty years ago, in 

 consequence of the tyranny of one 

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