Lhe Snail an Animal of Prey.....Tour in America. 
which gave him celebrity, entitled ¢* 4x 
Hiffory of the Civil Wars of England, be-. 
tween the two Houfes of Lancafter and 
York®.” It was written’ in Italian, in 
three volumes; and atranflation of it into 
Englith, by Henry Cary, Earl of Mon- 
mouth, in two volumes, thin folio, was 
publifhed in 1641. Biondi died in 1644. 
Taunton, April 14, 1798. dikes 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I HAVE it in my power to add a con- 
current teftimony to the circumftance 
related in the inftru€tive Journal of V. F. 
in his late tour into Yorkfhire and Lan- 
cafhire' (vol. 4. p. 257.), which added to 
the number of animals of prey. 
In the month -of June laft, as I was 
walking on the Town Moor in an even- 
ing, I faw a large black fnail lying ob- 
liquely over the back of a half-grown 
frog, and apparently devouring its. left 
fhoulder.. The novelty of. the circum- 
ftance induced me to difplace the {nail, 
and I then faw that it had eaten very 
deep, and the wound was little fhort of 
half an inch in diameter, and quite frefh. 
The fkin of the frog appeared as if it had 
been dead one day, or longer, of courle 
it is dubious whether the {nail had at- 
tacked it when living, or fimply feized it 
when dead. Iown I am inclined to the 
former idea, as I know that {nails have 
the power of raifing themfelves on their 
hinder parts, and throwing themfelves 
forward as far as their bodies will admit, 
which you-know are capable of great 
protrufion ; and alfo becaufe the pofition 
of the {nail was fuch as does not militate 
with what would have taken place, on the 
confequent attempt of the frog to efcape 
his affailant, the head of the inail being 
on the left fhoulder of the frog, and its 
body crofling jult before its right thigh. 
“ Lam, &c. 
Newcafile. Wis’. 
For the Monthly Magazme. 
JOURNEY from NEw-Yorx«k to PHILA- 
DELPHIA and the BRANDYWINE, in 
the STATE of PENNSYLVANIA. 
MR. EDITOR, - 
HE following obfervations, made | 
during an excurfion from New- 
York.into the interior of Chefter-county, 

+ Granger’s Biographical Hiftory of Eng- 
land, .v. 2..p. 36. and Mortimer’s ‘* Student's 
Pocket Dictionary,” and Biendi’s, ** Hiftory.” 
329 
é 
‘Pennfylvania, you are welcome to infert 
in your valuable Mifcellany.—On their 
fidelity you may rely. Iam, Sir, your’s, 
C. CAMPOLIDE, 
London, April, 1798. 
On the 16th May, 1794, leaving the 
interefting city of New- York, I took my 
paflage for Paulus-Hook, in one of the 
barks that conftantly ply between the two 
States. A fmart breeze foon carried us 
acrofs their natural boundary—the ma- 
jeftic and rapid Hudfon, or North river, 
and, for the firft time, I trod on the Jer- 
fey fhore, whofe romantic borders I had 
fo oft contemplated in diftant perfpective, 
from the delightful walk on the battery. 
We were no fooner landed than the flage 
was ready to convey us on our purpofed . | 
journey to Philadelphia, diftant 95 miles, 
Thefe carriages are in reality very little 
better than covered carts, refembling the 
caravans ufed in fome of the weftern 
counties of England, and, like them, ex- 
pofed in front to the duft and inclemencies 
of the weather. Scated therein on wooden 
benches, placed very clofe behind each 
other, and miferably ftraitened for want 
of room; you are charged an exorbitant 
fare (confidering the wretched accom- 
modations); and if perchance you ride in 
one of thefe wery pleafant velicles during 
a heavy rain, it is ten to one you get a 
complete foaking, asthey are rather apt to 
leak at the interftices. Is it not furprifmg, 
that on a road fo much frequented, they 
do not introduce the Englifh ftages, and 
poft-chaifes; but thefe, as well as other 
improvements, will doubtlefs progreflively 
take place among a people already fo en- 
lightened, and defirous of meliorating 
their condition. We pafled feveral pow- 
erful ftreams in the courfe of the journey, 
the Hudfon, the Raritan, the Second- 
river, and the Delaware. The imcom- 
modious ferries acrofs thefe rivers, and 
the tottering and narrow wooden bridges 
over the marfhes and ftreamlets, were 
both hazardous and unpleafant, and the 
occafion of much unavoidable delay ; but 
the myriads of mofquitos, or gnats, were 
infinitely more vexatious than any impe- 
diments in the route. ‘The firft place we 
pafled through was Bergen, an inconfi- 
derable village; the next was Newark 
(nine miles from New-York), where an 
elegant church and its tall {pire attracted 
our notice, as much as the very neat and 
modern appearance of the town itfelf; 
moft of the houfes being prettily built of 
wood, and fancifully painted on the out- 
fides, The environs are fruittul in app'es, 
Uuz2 and 
