has ripened and sheds its leaves, while all conditions are pass between the places. A good subject for a sketch. Probably the reason southern things die is not the cseverity of winter, but a kind of stagnation two killing of leaves before they are ripe. N. Anna is a small stream, but S. Anna nothing but a creek, 20 ft wide & shallow now, ankle deep. The first naked willow-trees I saw was, Anna, while the first I saw were in full Autumn leaf.