CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 83 



1818. 



March 11. " stronger than small beer, shave 

 " once a day, and wash my hands 

 " and face clean three times a day, 

 " at the very least." He said, that 

 was too much to think of doing. 

 12. Warm and fair. Like an English 

 first of May in point of warmth. I 

 got to ElizabethTown Point through 

 beds of mud. Twenty minutes too 

 late for the steam-boat. Have to 

 wait here at the tavern till to-mor 

 row. Great mortification. Supped 

 with a Connecticut farmer, who was 

 taking on his daughter to Little 

 York in Pennsylvania. The rest of 

 his family he took on in the fall. 

 He has migrated. His reasons were 

 these : he has Jive sons, the eldest 

 19 years of age, and several daugh 

 ters. Connecticut is thickly settled. 

 He has not the means to buy farms 

 for the sons there. He, therefore, 



L goes and gets cheap land in Penn 



sylvania; his sons will assist him to 

 clear it; and, thus, they will have a 

 farm each. To a man in such cir 

 cumstances, and " born with an 

 " axe in one hand, and a gun in the 

 " other," the western countries are 

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