Penfyfoamdy 'Journey to Wilmington. 1 2 1" 



Cated either a ftorm, or rain, or both together. 

 The fmaller the ring is, or the nearer it comes 

 to the moon, the fooner this weather fets in. 

 But this time neither of thefe changes happened, 

 and the halo had foretold a coldnefs in the air. 



I SAW to-day the Cbermes of the alder (Cher- 

 mes Alni) in great abundance on the branches of 

 that tree, which for that reafon looks quite 

 white, and at a diftance appears as it were co- 

 vered with mould. 



Qtt. 4th. I CONTINUED my journey early in 

 the morning, and the country ftill had the fame 

 appearance as I went on. It was a continual 

 chain of pretty high hills, with an eafy afcent on 

 all fides, and of vallies between them. The foil 

 confifted of a brick-coloured mould, mixed with 

 clay, and a few pebbles. I rode fometimes 

 through woods of feveral forts of trees, and fome- 

 times amidft little fields, which had been cleared 

 of the wood, and which at prefent were corn- 

 fields, meadows, and paftures. The farm-houfes 

 flood fingle, fometimes near the roads, and 

 fometimes at a little diftance from them, fo that 

 the fpace between the road and the houfes was 

 taken up with little fields and meadows. Some 

 of the houfes were built of ftone, two ftories 

 high, and covered with mingles of the white' 

 cedar. But moft of the houfes were wooden, 

 and the crevices flopped up with clay, inftead of 

 mofs, which we make ufe of for that purpofe. 

 No valves were to be met with in the chimneys, 

 and the people even did not know what I meant 

 by them. The ovens were commonly built up 

 at fome diftance from the houfes, and were 



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