1803. ] 
-is not a city ; but it contains 2500 inhabi- 
tants, has fome trade, and the river is 
navigable but only for {mall boats. From 
hence it is two miles and a quarter to Pin- 
neberg, a fmall town on the Pinnaw, na- 
vigable for flat-bottomed boats. Pinnel- 
berg is only two miles and a half from 
Hamburgh, making the whole diftance 
feventeen German miles, equal on the 
above fcale to feventy-nine and a_ half 
Englifh miles nearly. 
The mails ufed formerly to be carried 
from Cuxhaven to Hamburgh by land ; 
or, if the wind ferved, by a Blankenefe 
fifhing-boat ; and the traveller had no al- 
ternative, (till lately that a Hamburgh 
and Cuxhaven packet has been eitablifhed) 
but of being expofed, for a navigation of 
feventy miles, in an open boat ; or in the 
event of his preferring the land, of riding 
the fame difiance in a waggon over the 
moft execrable roads, and being fleeced 
by innkeepers and poitmasters at an exor- 
bitant rate. In point of diftance, the tra- 
veller does not lofe much; and as to ex- 
pence, he will probably gain, as he cer- 
tainly willnot pay fo extravagantly for 
his {canty comforts. The roads are bet- 
ter, and the charater of the natives more 
open and friendly. The writer has tra- 
verfed the country by different modes of 
conveyance; and for readinefs to oblige, 
intelligence, and particularly for per{pi- 
cuity in their directions to a ftray travel- 
ler, he thinks the boors, as they are here 
called, would be difgraced by a compari- 
fon with the boors of any county in Eng- 
Meteorological Obfervations. 3 
land. How far an intercourfe with En- 
glifhmen may fharpen the faculties of the 
innkeepers, may be doubtful. » ‘The only 
exorbitant charge the writer met with in 
the country was at Ahrenfburg, where 
the landlord had ferved his apprenticefhip 
at London and Windfor. There can be 
no comparifon between their modes of 
conveyance and an Englith ftage-coach ; 
but thofe who are ufed to the difcomforts 
of a German inn, and the inconveniences 
of German carriages and Germandriyers, 
will find the travelling-accommodations 
very tolerable. A paffport wili now doubt- 
leis be neceflary, as in time of peace the 
writer was ftopped at Oldeflce for want of 
one; but the burgomaiter being fortu- 
nately a gentleman and a fcholsr, he was 
difmiffled with politenefs, on fiating that 
the objet of his vifiting the place was to 
gratify his defire of feeing the country, 
and without any fee whatever; a circum= 
{tance that appeared ftrange to his compa- 
nion, who was yet indignant at the info-~ 
lence and rapacity of the Englifh paffport. 
office. H. 
Leicefier, Fune 10, 1803. 
Ea 4 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. - 
SIR, | 
if HAVE added up my journal for ano- 
ther half-year, and fend you the ab- 
firact as ufual.—[See Monthly Mag. vol 
X. p. 108, for an explanation of the num- 
bers of approximation of the wind. ] 
Thermometer. 
Baromet. 
1803. 
without| within 
| Approximation of 
Rain. |Evapo-\Wind to the Cardinal \ 
ration. Points. 
ee eee ss ee Se | See | 
4 
inch. deg. “|. deg. j.inch.|| inch, | N.Y Er [esa WwW . 
January a1 208820 if Staab BAe. be. he | O¢O5! | GO. Ag hy aes ae 
February = 29-497 | 34.8 | 36.6 | 0.67~] 0.29 | 19 7 NAS 1.4 
March =| ,29.002] 40.9 | 42.1 /|'o.61. | T.28 | 28 1 36,1 48 | 92 
April - BG-2k. 1 Agt 1 AQWE | hao, here iee 8 jee | 34 
May = (| 29-G00.\) Go.0- | 61.7.) 9.34. | 2.28. | 4a | Ot 29 ag 
June = | 20-089 4 56.7 -b 60.4. 1.3.98 | 7.89 1) 240) EAL gor k ao 
Mean - | 29.548 | 43.48] 45.50] 1.73 | Veg | Fh ee AO. Laie 
Totals |10.40 | 7.47 |184 | 88 |:40 |212 
I have very few remarks to make on the 
weather for thefe Ja(t fix months ; the fea- 
fon has been on the whole a guod one ; the 
f{pring-months have been very deficient in 
quantity of rain; fo that the feventeen 
months preceding the laft only.atforded an » 
average of twelve. We had, howcver, 
laft month, a good two months rain, 
which will help to bring up the general 
average. 
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