Once in three or four years, as is the case in most countries, it has been sickly in many parts. The fall of 1801, was probably as sickly a season as any one since the earliest settlement ; which is imputed to an uncommon wetness of the weather, occasioning much stagnated water. The prevailing sickness, which was the bilious fever, proved however not very mortal to the sick ; and the number of deaths was most probably not more than one for every two hundred inhabitants.

Trees usually put forth leaves, the earliest soi'ts in the first week of May, and oak and other later sorts near the 25*^^1 of that month. Corn is planted from the 15*^ to the 25^^ and by some near the 1^* of May. Rye begins to ripen, and hay is begun to be cut near the 4*''i of July, and near the 20*^ July wheat harvest is begun. Water commonly begins to be frozen near the first week of October, and snow usually falls near the 20th of November ; but cattle are sometimes kept in pasture until January, and on the flats of Genesee, nearly the whole winter. Snow commonly lies about nine inches deep. In the beginning of the year 1800, snow fell in most places about three feet deep, but there is no other instance known of so great a fall of it. The continuation of snow, besides its usefulness to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for the transportation of produce to market, a pair of horses travelling^ with thirty bushels, at the rate of 35 or 40 miles in a day. The winters usually break up about the middle of March.