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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 fufficiently (liewn, 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 feveral fides of a mountain. The people 

 near fuch fprings, ufe them for every purpofe 

 of a fine fpring water. They alfo condud: 

 the water into a little ftone building near 

 the houfe, where they can confine it, and 

 bring frefh fupplies at pleafure. In fummer 

 they place their milk, bottles of wine and 

 other liquors in this building, where they 

 keep cool and frefli. In many country 

 houfes, the kitchen or buttery was fo fitu- 

 ated, that a rivulet ran under it, and had 

 the water near at hand. 



Not only people of fortune, but even 

 others that had fome pofiTeflions, common- 

 ly had fifli ponds in the country near their 

 houfes. They always took care that frefli 

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