TRAVELS IN 
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midde of March ; and then wherever they appear* 
we may plant peas and beans in the open grounds* 
(vicia fativa) French beans (phafeolus) fow rad- 
difhes, (raphanus) lettuce* (ladtuca) onions, (cepa) 
paltinaca, daucus, and almoft every kind of ef- 
culent garden feeds, without fear or danger from 
froils ; for although we have fome times frofts af- 
ter their firft appearances for a night or two, yet not 
fo fevere as to injure the young plants. 
In the fpring of the year the fmail birds of paf- 
fage appear very fuddenly in Pennfylvania, which 
is not a little furprifing, 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 
letting off with high and fair winds from the fouth- 
ward ; for a llrong fouth and lbuth-weft wind about 
the beginning of April never fails bringing millions 
of thefe welcome vifitors. 
Being willing to contribute my mite towards 
illuftrating the fubjedt of the peregrination of the 
tribes of birds of N. America, I fhall fubjoin a 
nomenclature of the birds of paffage, agreeable to 
my obfervation, when on my travels from New 
England to New-Orleans, on the MiffifTippi, and 
point of Florida. 
Land birds which are feen in Pennfylvania, 
Maryland, Virginia, from S. Carolina, Georgia 
and Florida, N. and the fea coafi: Weftward, to the 
Apalachian mountains, viz. 
* These arrive in Pennfylvania in the fpring 
feafon from the South, and after building nells, 
and rearing their youngs return again Southerly in 
the autumn. 
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