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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