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dairy; and the other vaults are made use of to preserve roots, &;c. for the cattle, such as beets, carrots, turnips, potatoes, pumpkins, &;c. As the carriage-road into the barn runs over the vaults, as high as the topmost floor of the barn, the vaults are preserved cool in the summer, and free from the frost in winter. The whole of the ground floor of the barn being set apart for stables and cow-houses as is commonly the case with barns in Pennsylvania, there is accommodation for a great number of horses and cows. Along the front of the barn, about 8 feet from the ground, a wooden stage projects about six feet from the wall, inclosed overhead six or seven feet high, and also at the ends and side, forming a gallery the length of the building; having several communi-cations or doorways out of the barn into it. In the floor of this gallery are several trap doors, through which they throw fodder for the cattle into the yard during the winter months. It is obvious that an appendage of this sort must be very useful in a farm-yard, as it also affords a comfortable shelter to the cattle from rain and snow. In the afternoon M. R. accompanied me to my cousin W. B.'s, and, in our way, we passed over the ground occupied by the American Army under General Washington, as an entrenched camp, during the war. The remains of the entrench-ments are still visible, although the scite is again