10 Journal.— July. [Part I. 



July. 



I. Fine day. Bought 20 bushels of English salt for 

 half a dollar a bushel. 



2 & 3. Fine days. 



4. Fine day. Carrots, sown 3d June, 3 inches high. 



5. Very hot day. No Jlies yet. 



6. Fine hot day. Currants ripe. Oats in haw. 

 Rye nearly ripe. Indian corn two feet high. Hay- 

 making nearly done. 



7. Rain and thunder early in the morning. 



8. Fine hot day. Wear no waistcoat now, except in 

 the morning and evening. 



9. Fine hot day. Apples to make puddings and 

 pies ; but our housekeeper does not know how to make 

 an apple-pudding. She puts the pieces of apple 

 amongst the batter ! She has not read Peter Pindar. " 



10. Fine hot day. 1 work in the land morning and 

 evening, and write in the day in a north room. The 

 dress is now become a very convenient, or, rather, a 

 very little inconvenient affair. Shoes, trowsers, shirt 

 and hat. No plague of dressing and undressing ! 



II. Fine hot day in the morning, but began to grow 

 dark in the afternoon. A sort of haze came over. 



12. Very hot day. The common black cherries, 

 the little red honey cherries, all ripe now, and falling 

 and rotting by the thousands of pounds weight. But, 

 this place which I rent is remarkable for abundance of 

 cherries. Some early peas, sown in the second week 

 in June, fit for the table. This is thirty days from the 

 time of sowing. No Jlies yet ! No rmisqnitoes ! 



13. Hot and heavy, like the pleading of a quarter- 

 sessions lawyer. No breeze to-day, which is rarely 

 the case. 



14. Fine day. The Indian corn four feet high. 



15. Fine day. We eat turnips sown on the second 

 of June. Early cabbages (a gift) sown in May. 



16. Fine hot day. Fine young onions, sown on the 

 8th of June. 



17. Fine hot da}-. Hardest of M'heat, rye, oats and 

 barley, half done. But, indeed, what is it to do when 

 the weather does so much ! 



