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at the distance of more than a mile. Although these sounds are strange to an English ear, yet there is something in them which is far from be- ing unpleasant. 3d Month, 16th. In the forenoon I attended Merion meeting, and spent the afternoon at R. J.'s, who entertained me with an account of the man- ner in which Phineas Pemberton and his wife, first became acquainted with each other; and they being the first of that family who came to America, the story was interesting:--Phineas, when a boy, was an apprentice to a grocer in Manchester, and I believe the house in which he lived is still stand- ing, as J. P. one of his descendants, on his late visit to England, had the curiosity to take a look at it, when in that neighbourhood. It happened, on a market-day, that whilst Phineas was serving the customers, there came in a country friend and his daughter, of the name of Harrison, to purchase groceries for the family; and as they waited to be served, the daughter, who was but a little girl, employed herself in eating cherries out of a small basket she had brought with her. As soon as Phineas was at liberty, he furnished the friend and his daughter with the groceries they wanted; and the little girl having some of her cherries to spare, gave them to Phineas. Pleased with her generosity, he insisted upon her taking a paper of