SIB TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : s 
Bottetourt County is entirely surrounded by 
mountains ; it is also crossed by various ridges 
of mountains in different directions, a circum¬ 
stance which renders the climate particularly 
agreeable. It appears to me, that there is no 
part of America where the climate would be 
more congenial to the constitution of a native 
©f Great Britain or Ireland. The frost in win¬ 
ter is more regular, but not severer than com¬ 
monly takes place in those islands. In summer 
the heat is somewhat greater; but there is not 
a night in the year that a blanket is not found 
very comfortable. Before ten o’clock in the 
motning the heat is greatest; at that hour a 
breeze generally springs up- from the moun¬ 
tains, and'renders the air agreeable the whole 
day. Fever and ague are disorders unknown 
here, and the air is so salubrious, that persons 
who come thither afflicted with it from the low 
country, tow ards the sea, get rid of it in a very 
short time. 
sects than the crops raised upon new land. If this is really 
the case, the appearance of the Hessian Fly should be con¬ 
sidered as a circumstance rather beneficial than otherwise to 
the country, as it will induce the inhabitants to relinquish 
that ruinous practice of working the same piece of ground 
year after year till it is entirely worn out, and then 
leaving it waste, instead of taking some pains to improve it s 
by manure. This fly is not known at present south of the 
Patowmac River nor behind the Blue Ridge. 
