CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 61 



1818. 



Jan. 30. so many millions of sparkling stones, 

 when the sun shines, which is all the 

 day. 



, 31. Same weather. Two farmers of 



Lycoming county had heard that 

 William Cobbett was here. They 

 modestly introduced themselves. 

 What a contrast with the " yeo 

 manry cavalry?" 



Feb. 1. Same weather. About the same as 

 a " hard frost" in England. 



2. Same weather. 



3. Snow. 



4. Little snow. Not much frost. This 

 day, thirty-three years ago, 1 enlist 

 ed as a soldier. I always keep the 

 day in recollection. 



5. Having been to Harrisburgh on the 

 second, returned to McAllister's 

 to-day in a sleigh. The River be 

 gins to be frozen over. It is about 

 a mile wide. 



6. Little snow again, and hardish frost. 



7. Now and then a little snow. Talk 

 with some hop-growers. Prodigious 

 crops in this neighbourhood; but, 

 of them in the Second Part. What 

 would a Farnham man think of 

 thirty hundred weight of hops upon 



