This period, when the snows are upon the ground, is also the season of festivity with the American farmers, as it affords an easy and expeditious, as well as a cheap mode of travelling, and of paying visits to one another, and in holding a friendly intercourse with their relations at a distance, in which they appear to have more real enjoyment than the same class of people in any other country in the world.

These snows are therefore reckoned extremely beneficial ; for while they meliorate the ground, and assist the farmer in removing his heavy timber and produce, at an easy expence, they contribute much to his comfort and happiness, in the intercourse with his friends and neighbors, in the facility of travelling from one place to another, and in the fine, serene, and clear atmosphere which is experienced during the whole of the winter.

The snows are generally off the ground about the middle of March, when the spring weather commences, by mild showers of rain, which continue occasionally during the whole of the months of April and May, gradually becoming warmer and warmer ; which occasions a quick vegetation. During this season the country is delightfully beautiful, with' the whole fruit trees in bloom, as well as every shrub or vine which bears any wild fruit in the woods.

In June the weather begins to grow warm. In July and August it is occasionally sultry, with frequent thunder showers, which are succeeded immediately by fine serene weather, without the intervention of any settled rains. During this season the flies are very troublesome ; but this will be less and less the case as the country is cleared.