3G& TRAYELS IN THE UNITED STATES: 
ing down from the Blue Mountains you pass ~ 
through it; it is about half the size of Beth¬ 
lehem, and built much on the same plan. 
Letitz is situated at the distance of about teri 
miles from Lancaster. 
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The country for many miles round Beth¬ 
lehem is most pleasingly diversified with rising 
grounds ; the soil is rich, and better cultivated 
than any part of America I before saw. Until 
Within a few years past this neighbourhood has 
been distinguished for tire salubrity of its cli¬ 
mate, but fevers, chiefly bilious and inter- 
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mb tent) have increased to a very great degree 
pi late, and, indeed, not only here, but in many 
other parts of Pennsylvania, which have been 
long settled. During the last autumn, more 
people suffered from sickness in the well cul- 
tivited parts of the country than had ever been 
remembered, Various reasons have been as¬ 
signed for this increase of Levers in Pennsyl¬ 
vania) but it appears most probably to be ow¬ 
ing to the unequal quantities of rain that have 
fallen of late years, and to the unprecedented 
mildness of the winters. 
Bethlehem is visited during summer time 
by great numbers of people from the neigh* 
bouriiig large towns* who are led thither by 
curiosity or pleasure; and regularly, twice a 
week throughout the year, a public stage wag¬ 
gon runs between it and Philadelphia, he 
