^'^ CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. Part I. 



Jan. 23. Harder frost j but not very severe. A- 

 bout as cold as the weather was during 

 the six-weeks' continuance of the snow, 

 in 1814, in England. 



24. The same weather continues. 



25. A sort of half-thaw. Sun warm. Har- 

 risburgh is a new town, close on the left 

 bank of the River Susquehannah, which 

 is not frozen over, but has large quanti- 

 ties of ice floating on its waters. All ve- 

 getation, and all appearance of green, gone 

 away. 



26. Mild weather. Hardly any frost. 



27. Thaw. Warm. Tired to death of the 

 Tavern at Harrisburgh, though a very 

 good one. The cloth spread three times 

 a day. Fish, fowl, meat, cakes, eggs, 

 sausages ; all sorts of things in abun- 

 dance. Board, lodging, civil but not 

 servile waiting on, beer, tea, coffee, cho- 

 colate. Price a dollar and a quarter a 

 day. Here we meet all together : Sena- 

 tors, Judges, Lawyers, Tradesmen, Farm- 

 ers and all. I am weary of the ever- 

 lasting loads of meat. Weary of being idle. 

 How few such days have 1 spent in my 

 whole life ! 



28. Thaw and rain. — My business not coming 

 on, I went to a country Tavern, hoping 

 there to get a room to myself, in which 

 to read my English papers, and sit down 

 to writing. 1 am now dt M'Mlister^s 

 Tavern^ situated at the ibot of the first 

 ridge of mountains ; or rather, upon a 

 little nook of land, close to the river, 

 where the river has found a way through 

 a break in the chain of mountains. Great 

 enjoyment here. Sit and read and write. 

 My mind is again in England. Mrs. 

 M'Allister just suits me. Does not pes- 



