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of it.— This day was exceeding warm, in the 

 afternoon we arrived back to Wilkesbarre, having 

 made a tolerable long excursion ; I observed no- 

 thing new in vegetation excepting the above men- 

 tioned plants in flower & some others most com- 

 mon everywhere. 



18. — Having had a very restless night, & feel- 

 ing very undisposed this morning I kept in the 

 house all day. resting myself; I apprehend a 

 large drink of very cool butter milk, which I took 

 yesterday, when very warm has done me a good 

 deal of injury ; colik made me to keep the bed 

 in the afternoon, connected with a feverish heat, 

 which alarms me very much. 



19. — This morning I still feeld very sick, & with- 

 out any apetite for eating ; I vomited frequently 

 very heavy, & got so weak, that I expected no- 

 thing else, than to be laid up alltogether. But 

 still I thought that exercise, if I could stand it, 

 might do me more good, than to nurse myself, I 

 got a hammer & chissel & some plaister to go 

 out to the coal mine, to see if I could get some 

 of that impression. Mr. Fell the landlord, dit 

 go with me ; he is a man of some learning & ob- 

 servation, his company was so much more use- 

 full to me. When we arrived there, I set to work but 

 was not able to get a piece of a square inch entire 

 out, it being so very brickie that it flew in small 

 fragments ; I made a paste of the plaister, & cast a 

 good large piece, main time that were a drying we 

 lookd about the place for more curiosities ; after 

 climing down the deep hollow, below the rock 

 where the above impressions are on, we found 

 the bed of the brook full of fragments of slate, coal 



