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and Hampshire. If a Frenchman, born 

 and bred, could be taken up and carried 

 bhndfolded to Guildford, I wonder what 

 his sensations would be, when he came 

 to have the use of his sight ! Every thins; 

 near Guildford seems to have received an 

 influence from the town. Hedges, gates, 

 stiles, gardens, houses inside and out, and 

 the dresses of the people. The market 

 day atGuildford is a perfect show of clean- 

 liness. Not even a carter without a clean 

 smock-frock and closely-shaven and clean- 

 washed face. Well may Mr. Birkbeck, 

 who came from this very spot, think the 

 people dirty in the Western Country ! — 

 I'll engage he finds more dirt upon the 

 necks and faces of one family of his pre- 

 sent neighbours, than he left behind him 

 upon the skins of all the people in the 

 three parishes of Guildford. However, 

 he would not have found this to be the^ 

 case in Pennsylvania, and especially in 

 those parts where the Quakers abound ; 

 and, I am told, that, in the New England 

 States, the people are as cleanly and as 

 neat as they are in England. The sweet- 

 est flowers, when they become putrid, 

 s'ink the jnost ; and, a nasty woman is 

 the nastiest thing in nature. 

 Jan. 22. Haid frost. — My business in Pennsylva- 

 nia js with the Legislature. It is sitting 

 at Rarrishiirgh. Set off to-day by the 

 stage. Fine country ; fine barns ; fine 

 farms. Must speak particularly of these 

 in anotler place. Got to Lancaster. The 

 largest inland town in the United States. 

 A very clean and good town. No beg- 

 garly houses. All looks like ease and 

 ■plenUh 



