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engaged this carriage to ourselves, and early 
on the second day from that on which we 
quitted Bethlehem, reached the capital, after 
an absence of somewhat more than five 
months. 
LETTER XXXVIII. 
Leave Philadelphia.—Arrive at New York.— 
Visit Long Island.—*Breadful havoc by the 
Yellow Fever.—Dutch Inhabitants suspicious 
. of Strangers—Excellent Fanners.—Number 
of Inhabitants — Culture of Corn.—Immense 
Quantities of Grouse and Deer.—Laws to 
protect them.-—■Increase of the same. — De¬ 
crease of Beavers.—New T ark agreeable to 
Stra ngers.—Concl usio n . 
MY DEAR SIR, New York, January 1/97* 
AFTER having remained a few days at 
Philadelphia, in order to arrange some mat¬ 
ters preparatory to my taking a final leave 
of that city, I set out once more for New 
York, The month of December had now ar¬ 
rived ; considerable quantities of snow had 
fallen; and the keen winds from the north¬ 
west had already spread a thick crust of ice 
