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Show .. , CLIMATE OF THE MIDDLE STATES. 5-S L E T T E R VI. Arrival at Phz'ladelphi'a.-Some Oijervatrons on the Cltiilatt! qf the Middle States.-Pub!ic Cmnages prevented from plying betwem Baltimore and Phtladdphia by the Badnejs if tht Roads.-Left Baltimore during Frojl. -Mt!t with American Travellers on the Road.-Their Behavrour preparatory to fitting qfffrom all Inn.-Arrival on the Banks of the Sifqucharmah.- Pq/Jage of that River when frozen over.-Dangerous Situatzon of the Pajfengers.-American Travellers at the Tavern oJt the oppo- Jite Side of the Rz"ver.-'l'beir noify D!JPutatiom. MY DEAR SlR, Philadelphia, February. AFTER having fpent fome weeks in WaG1ington, George Town, and Baltimore, I fet out for thi city, where I arrived four days ago. The months of October and November are the moll agreeable, in the middle and fouthern fi:ates, of any in the year; the changes in the weather are then lefs frequent, and for tbc moll part the air is temperate and the fky ferene. During this year the air was fo mild, that when I was at George Town, even as bte as the fl:cond wee!{ in December, it was found plcafant to keep the windows up during dinner time. This, however, was an unufual circumftance. In Maryland, before December was ov r, there were a few cold d, ys, and during January we had two or three different fa lls of fnow; but for the mofi part the weather remai11ed very mild until the latter end of January, when a {harp north-wefl: wind fct iu. The kccnncfs of this wind in winter is prodigious, and furp:1!Ies every thing of the kind which we have an idea of in England. Whenever it blows, during the winter months, a frofi: immediately takes place. In the courfe of three days, in the prefent inftance, the Sufquel annah and Delaware r"v ers were frozen over; a fall of fnow took place, which remained on t 1e ground ~bout two feet deep, and there was every appcara Ke of a fc vere and 3 tedious |
