38 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1818. 



Jan. 21. finds more dirt upon the necks and 

 faces of one family of his present 

 neighbours, than he left behind him 

 upon the skins of all the people in 

 the three parishes of Guildford. 

 However, he would not have found 

 this to be the case in Pennsylvania, 

 and especially in those parts where 

 the Quakers abound; and, I am 

 told, that, in the New England 

 States, the people are as cleanly 

 and as neat as they are in England. 

 The sweetest flowers, when they 

 become putrid, stink the most ; and, 

 a nasty woman is the nastiest thing 

 in nature. 



22. Hard frost. My business in Penn 

 sylvania is with the legislature. It 

 is sitting at Uarrisburgh. Set off 

 to-day by stage. Fine country; 

 fine barns ; fine farms. Must speak 

 particularly of these in another 

 place. Got to Lancaster. The 

 largest in-land town in the United 

 States. A very clean and good 

 town. No beggarly houses. All 

 looks like ease and plenty. 



23. Harder frost, but not very severe. 

 Almost as cold as the weather was 



