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vegetation. Seeds and grain which have been committed to 

 the soil, during the last and present month, start into life and 

 their organic parts are developed with a vigour unknown to 

 other climes. This is the propitious season for preparing and 

 perfecting the productions of the kitchen-garden, which are 

 to supply us with culinary herbs and roots, during the winter 

 and spring season. 



OCTOBER. 



The present is the most agreeable month of the year; its 

 temperature is mild and refreshing, occupying the due medium 

 between the extremes of heat and cold. It generally sets in 

 fair during the first week or 10 days of the month, which 

 continues for 6, 7 or more weeks — Nothing can be more fa- 

 vourable than this enchanting season for the restoration of the 

 health of the valetudinarian, who may have suffered from 

 the autumnal intermittent, which generally attacks strangers, 

 soon after the river retires within its banks, about the end of 

 June or beginning of July, and which by the way does not 

 extend its influence beyond 4, 5 or 6 miles from the river 

 swamps, tho' probably when our forests, shall be cut down, 

 this annual visitant of our (otherwise) salubrious climate, will 

 penetrate farther into the interior. The cotton planter too has 

 cause to admire the dispensations of Providence, which facili- 

 tate the collecting a most valuable crop, which by an opposite 

 order of the seasons must be totally lost. 



NOVEMBER. 



The first half and sometimes the whole of this month con- 

 tinues remarkably fine; the present has been particularly so, a 

 few drops of rain having fallen only the first day: about the 

 '2 c 2d. and 23d. a north-west wind caused the thermometer to 

 sink below the freezing point, but it presently ascended again 

 and the weather continued mild to the end of the month, the 

 thermometer standing at mid-day from 60 to 70°. — The ewes 

 begin to drop their lambs about the commencement of the 

 month, and continue for three months. 



