Sojourn in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Excursions into the Surrounding Region
Bethlehem on the Lecha or Lehigh – Dr. Saynisch – His solicitude – Natural history specimens – Lecha islands – Lecha Mountain Nazareth Delaware Gap – Easton – Delaware Gap – Pocono Mountains – Tunkhannock and Tobyhanna Creek – Beaver and Bear Creek – Susquehanna Valley – Wilkes-Barre – Falls of Solomon Creek – Neskopeck Valley – Lausanne – Nesquehoning Valley – Mauch Chunk on the Lecha – Collieries – Lecha Valley – Mahoning Creek – Lehigh Valley – Mahoning Gap – Preparations for departure from Bethlehem – Nazareth – Allentown
August 8, 1832
Overcast sky. At six thirty, a temperature of 18 3/4°R [74.2°F, 23.4°C]. Dreidoppel went hunting and brought back some interesting birds: Icterus baltimore, Columba carolinensis, Turdus migratorius, Muscicapa ruticilla. Mr. Bodmer also brought some with him. He sketched these; afterward he completed the drawing of an old female bullfrog, of which I had obtained a large number and compared and described the different genders. All these frogs, whose croaking, as a rule, is always heard, although more so in spring, were now silent, and when my windows were opened, I heard only the piping sound of the gray tree frog (Hyla squirella) in the bushes near the houses of neighboring Bethlehem. It rained heavily today and was very warm besides. All the windows and doors of the houses are open, even late in the evening. Perspiring bodies catch cold easily as a result of this, and today that is just what happened to us.
