White and Black Ash, Poplar, Chesnut, Elm,
Shellbark Hiccory, Bass Wood or Lyn, Sugar
Maple, Beech, White Pine &c. When the roads
are first opened and used they are mostly
muddy, in places very deep, but after they
have been used 8 or 10 years and the Roots
rotten and gone, they get pretty good, tho
at present there are amany deep places.
as far as I can learn their Summers are plea-
-sant tho nearly, in the daytime, as warm
as our own are, but the evenings and
nights mostly cool, so that a blanket & Cover-
-lit are not often unpleasant sleeping
under, -- there Winters are steady and more
Snow lies on the ground than in our parts, but
in convesation with some who moved out of
these parts the Jersyes and Pennsylvania

, they were of the Mind we have
a many days here, as cold as any they have there,
but we have more warm ones, their Win-
-ters mostly set in towards the middle of the
12th Mo, and in the forepart of winter they
have frequent snows, until the ground
becomes 18, 20, or 24 Inches deep, but seldom
more, which snow continues without much additi-
-on until the Middle of the third Month, which