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



1818. 



Feb. 16. first floor up-stairs. Below are sta 

 bles, stalls, pens, and all sorts of 

 conveniences. Up-stairs are rooms 

 for threshed corn and grain ; for 

 tackle, for meal, for all sorts of 

 things. In the front (South) of the 

 barn is the cattle yard. These are 

 very fine buildings. And, then, all 

 about them looks so comfortable, 

 and gives such manifest proofs of 

 ease, plenty and happiness ! Such 

 is the country of WILLIAM PENN'S 

 settling! It is a curious thing to 

 observe the farm-houses in this coun 

 try. The^y consist, almost without 

 exception, of a considerably large 

 and a very neat house, with sash win 

 dows, and of a small house, which 

 seems to have been tacked on to the 

 large one ; and, the proportion they 

 bear to each other, in point of di 

 mensions, is, as nearly as possi 

 ble, the proportion of size between 

 a Cow and her Calf, the latter a 

 month old. But, as to the cause, 

 the process has been the opposite 

 of this instance of the works of na 

 ture, for, it is the large house which 

 has grown out of the small one. The 



