their higer parts, I may fay with certainty, from 1 2 years obfervations, having fcarcely ever, during that time, feen an unequivocal proof of its exiftence on them at all during fummer. Severe frofts in the depth of winter prove that the region of dews extends higher in that feafon than the tops of the mountains: but certainly, in the fummer feafon, the va- pours, by the time they attain that heighth, are become fo attentuated as not to fubfide and form a dew when the fun retires.
The weavil has not yet afcended the high mountains.
A more fatisfaflory eftimate of our cHmate to fome, may perhaps be formed, by noting the plants which grow here, fubjeft however to be killed by our feverefts colds. Thefe are the fig, pomegranate, artichoke, and European walnut. In mild winters, lettuce and endive require no fhel- ter; but generally they need a flight covering, i do not know that the want of long mofs, reed, myrtle, fwamp laurel, holly and cyprefs, in the upper country, proceeds from a greater degree of cold, nor that they were ever killed with any degree of cold, nor that they were ever killed with any degree of cold in the lower country. The aloe lived in Williamf- burgh, in the open air, through the fevere winter of 1779, 1780.