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different yearly meetings on this continent; and also of one to the yearly meeting in London; which, with some small alterations, were approved and adopted. After a solemn pause, and a prayer to the Divine Being, the meeting concluded its twelfth sitting, and the last for this year. 5th Month, 2d. I attended Merion week-day meeting, and spent the afternoon pleasantly in company with R. J. and H. B. whom I assisted in planting several paper-mulberry trees, on the vacant ground near the meeting-house, which were intended to be a shade for friends' horses in the summer season. There is generally a plot of ground round the country meeting-houses in America, sometimes of several acres, planted with shady trees, under which the horses and carriages of friends stand, during meeting time, and which forms a most interesting piece of scenery. 5th Month, 3d. At Merion I this day received letters from my wife and children dated the 14th of 2d Month, giving accounts of their welfare. Persons who have never removed from their native country, can hardly conceive the pleasure that is derived from the correspondence of near connexions when separated from them in a distant land. 5th Month, 4th. I attended Merion meeting it being 1st day, and afterwards had the company of R. S. and A. K. of Philadelphia to dinner. These