Some think it colder in winter, but I cannot out of experience say so.

The air is very clear and foggy, not as hath been reported.

I never in my life remember a more seasonable year than we have here enjoyed." Mr.Winslow's doubt as to whether the cold of his first winter in New England exceeded that of the ordinary winters which he had passed in England, refutes the fictitious representations of many writers, who to magnify the virtues and merits of the Plymouth colonists, describe them as braving, with a martyr's courage, the appalling cold of an almost Arctic winter--a winter which enabled the new settlers to commence their gardens the 16th of March, and they add in their Journal: "Monday and Tuesday, March 19th and 20th, proved fair days.

We digged our grounds and _sowed our garden seeds_." Not one of the American United Empire Loyalists--the Pilgrim Fathers of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick--could tell of a winter in the countries of their refuge, so mild, and a spring so early and genial, as that which favoured the Pilgrim Fathers of New England during their first year of settlement; nor had any settlement of the Canadian Pilgrim Fathers been able to command the means of celebrating the _first_ "Harvest Home" by a week's festivity and amusements, and entertaining, in addition, ninety Indians for three days.].