IIO TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : 
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slight falls of snow, but in no one instance did 
it remain two days on the ground. A smart 
frost set in, the first week of this month, and 
snow fell to the depth of six or seven inches; 
but on the third day a sudden thaw came on, 
and it quickly disappeared : since then the 
weather has remained uncommonly mild. The 
season being so fine, and so favourable for tra¬ 
velling, I was unwilling to stay at Philadel¬ 
phia ; accordingly I set out for this place on 
horseback, and arrived here last night, at the 
end of the second day’s journey. From hence 
I intend to proceed towards the south, to meet 
the approaching spring. 
The road between Philadelphia and Lan¬ 
caster has lately undergone a thorough repair, 
and tolls are levied upon it, to keep it in order, 
under the direction of a company. When¬ 
ever these tolls afford a profit of more than 
fifteen per cent, on the stock originally sub¬ 
scribed for making the road, the company is 
bound, by an act of assembly, to lessen them. 
This is the first attempt to have a turnpike 
road in Pennsylvania, and it is by no means 
relished by the people at large, particularly by 
the waggoners, who go in great’ numbers by 
this route to Philadelphia from the back parts 
of the state. 
The state of Pennsylvania lies nearly in the 
form of a parallelogram, whose greatest length 
