November 1748. 



the firing into the pot, and began to eat again i 

 this they continued till the treacle was all eaten i 

 in the mean time, one fwarm running down the 

 firing, and the other up. 



Nov. 1 2th. A MAN of fortune, who has long 

 been in this province, afferted, that, by twenty 

 years experience, he had found a confirmation of 

 what other people have obfervedwith regard to the 

 weather, vtz. that the weather in winter was 

 commonly foretold by that on the firfl of Novem* 

 ber, old ftile, or twelfth new ftile ; if that whole 

 day be fair, the next winter will bring but little 

 rain and fnow along with it; but if the firft half 

 .of the day be clear, and the other cloudy, the 

 beginning of winter would accordingly be fair, 

 but its end, and fpring, would turn out rigorous 

 and difagreeable : of the fame kind were the other 

 prefages. I have likewife in other places heard 

 of fimilar figns of the weather; but as a mature 

 judgment greatly leflens the confidence in them, 

 fo the meteorological obfervations have fufficient- 

 ly fhewn, how infinitely often thefe prophecies 

 have failed. 



PENSYLVANIA abounds in fprings, and you 

 commonly meet with a fpring of clear water on 

 one or the other, and fometimes on feverafl fides 

 of a mountain. The people near fuch fprings 

 ufe them for every purpofe of a fine fpring water. 

 They alfo conduct the water into a little fton'e 

 building near the houfe, where they can confine 

 it, and bring frefh (applies at pleafure. In fbrn- 

 roer they place their milk, bottles of wine, and 

 other liquors, in this building, where they keep 

 cool ^nd frefli. In many country houfes, the 



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