14 CLIMATE, SEASONS, Ilc. Part I. 



hind him near that exemplary spot, Guildford in 

 Surrey! Both blots are, howe^'cr, easily accounted 

 for. 



17. The fences are of post and rail. This arose, 

 in the first place, from the abundance of timber that 

 men knew not how to dispose of. It is now become 

 an affair of great expense in the populous parts of 

 the country ; and, that it might, with great advan- 

 tage and perfect ease, be got rid of, I shall clearly 

 show in another part of my work. 



18. The dzvellings and gardens diud little out hou- 

 ses of labourers, which form so striking a feature 

 of beauty in England, and espepially in Kent, Sus- 

 sex, Surrey, and Hampshire, and which constitute 

 a sort of fairy-land, when compared with those of 

 the labourers in France, are what I, for my part, 

 most feel the want of seeing upon Long Island. In- 

 ■*tead of the neat and warm little cottage, the yard, 

 row-stall, pig-sty, hen-house, all in miniature, and 

 the garden, nicely laid out and the paths bordered 

 with flowers, while the cottage door is crowned 

 with a garland of roses or honey-suckle : instead 

 of these, we here see the labourer content with a 

 .shell of boards, while all around him lies as barren 

 ^s the sea-beach ; though the natural earth would 

 iend T.eions, the finest in the world, creeping round 

 bis door, and though there is no English shrub, or 

 Power, which will not grow and flourish here. This 

 want of attention in such cases is hereditary from 

 ihe first settlers. They found land so plenty, that 

 I hey treated sma^l spots with contempt. Besides, 

 ihe exampU of neatness was wanting. There was 

 no gentlemen's garvlens, kept as clean as drawing- 

 rooms with grass as even as a carpet. P^rora en- 

 deavouring to imitate perfection men arrive at me- 

 diocrity ; and, those who never have seen, or 

 heardof perfection, in these matters, will naturally 

 be sloveas. 



19. Yet, notwithstanding these hlots^ as \ deem 



