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



1818. 



March 12. desirable ; but not to English far 

 mers, who have great skill in fine 

 cultivation, and who can purchase 

 near New York or Philadelphia. 

 This YANKEY (the inhabitants of 

 Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massa 

 chusetts and New Hampshire, only, 

 are called Yankeys) was about the 

 age of SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, and, 

 if he had been dressed in the usual 

 clothes of Sir Francis, would have 

 passed for him. Features, hair, 

 eyes, height, make, manner, look, 

 hasty utterance at times, musical 

 voice, frank deportment, pleasant 

 smile. All the very fac-simile of 

 him. I had some early York cab 

 bage seed and some cauliflower 

 seed in my pocket, which had been 

 sent me from London, in a letter, 

 and which had reached me at Har- 

 risburgh. I could not help giving 

 him a little of each. 



13. Same weather. A fine open day. 

 Rather a cold May-day for Eng 

 land. Came to New York by the 

 steam-boat. Over to this island by 

 another, took a little light waggon, 

 that whisked me home over roads as 



