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could be busy amongst his threshers \n the height of 

 harvest. — The weather is so fine, ajid the grain so dry, 

 that, when the wheat and rye are threshed by the flail, 

 the sheaves are barely untied, laid upon the floor, re- 

 ceive a few raps, and are then tied up, clean threshed 

 for straw, without the order of the straws being in the 

 least changed ! The ears and hutts retain their places 

 in the sheaf, and the band that tied the sheaf before ties 

 it again. The straAv is as bright as burnished gold. 

 Not a speck in it. These facts will speak volumes to 

 an English farmer, who will see with what ease work 

 must be done in such a country. 



25. Fine hot day. Early pea, mentioned before, 

 harvested, in forty days from the sowing. Not more 

 Jiies than in England. 



26. Fine broiling day. The Indian Corn grows 

 away now, and has, each plant, at least, a tumbler full 

 of water standing in the sockets of its leaves, while the 

 sun seems as if it Avould actually burn one. Yet Me 

 have a breeze ; and, under these fine shady Walnuts 

 and Locusts and Oaks, and on the fine grass beneath, 

 it is very pleasant. Woodcocks begin to come very 

 thick about. 



27. Fine broiler again. Some friends from England 

 here to-day. We spent a pleasant day ; drank success 

 to the Debt, and de.struction to the Borough mongers, in 

 gallons of milk and water. — Not more Jlies than in 

 JEngland. 



28. Very, very hot. The Thermometer 85 degrees 

 in the shade ; but a breeze. Never slept better in all 

 my life. No covering. A sheet under me, and a straw 

 bed. And then, so happy to have no clothes to put on 

 but shoes and trowsers ! My window looks to the East. 

 The moment the Aurora appears, I am in the Orchard. 

 It is impossible for any human being to lead a pleasanter 

 life than tliis. How I pity those, who are compelled to 

 endure the stench of cities ; but, for those who remain 

 there without being compelled, 1 have no pity. 



29. Still the same degree of heat. 1 measured a 

 water-melon runner, whicli grew eighteen inches in the 

 last 48 hours. The dctvs noM' are equal to showers ; I 

 ff(?c|ueHtly, in the morning, wash hands and face, teet 



