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TRAVELS IN 
middle of March ; and then wherever they appear, 
we may plant peas and beans in the open grounds^ 
( vicia fativa) French beans (phafeolus) low rad- 
difhes, (raphanus) lettuce, (lacluca) onions, (cepa) 
paftinaca, daucus, and almoft every kind of ef- 
culent garden feeds, without fear or danger from 
frofts ; for although we have fometimes frofts after 
their firft appearance for a night or two, yet not fo 
fevere as to injure the young plants. 
In the fpring of the year the fmall birds of paf~ 
fage appear very fuddenly in Pennfylvania, which 
is not a little furprifmg, and no lefs pleafing : at 
once the woods, the groves, and meads, are filled 
with their melody, as if they dropped down' from 
the fkies. The reafon or probable caufe is their 
fetting off with high and fair winds from the fouth- 
ward ; for a flrong fouth and fouth-weft wind about 
the beginning of April never fails bringing millions 
of thefe welcome vifitors. 
Being willing to contribute my mite toward 5 
illuftrating the f abject of the peregrination of the 
tribes of birds of N. America, I fhall fubjoin a 
nomenclature of the birds of palTage, agreeable to 
my obfervation, when on my travels from New 
England to New-Orleans, on the Miififfippi, and 
point of Florida. 
Land birds which are feen in Pennfylvania, 
Maryland, Virginia, from S. Carolina, Georgia 
and Florida, N. and the fea coaft Weftward, to the 
Apalachian mountains, viz. 
* These arrive in Pennfylvania in the fpring, 
feafon from the South, and after building nefts ? 
and rearing their young, return again Southerly in 
the autumn, 
j- These 
