Chap. I.] Journal.— August. 13 



and legs, in the dew on the high grass. The Indian 

 Corn shoots up now so beautifully ! 



30. Still melting hot. 



31, Same weather. 



August. 



1. Same weather. I take off two shirts a day 

 wringing wet, I have a clothes-horse to hang them on 

 to dry. Drink about 20 good tumblers of milk and 

 water every day. No ailments. Head always clear. 

 Go to bed by day-light very often. Just after the hens 

 go to roost, and rise again with them. 



2. Hotter and hotter, I think ; but, in this weather 

 we always have our friendly breeze. — Not a single mus- 

 quito yet. 



3. Cloudy and a little shattering of rain ; but not 

 enough to lay the dust. 



4. Fine hot day. 



5. A very little rain. Dried up in a minute. Planted 

 cabbages with dust running into the holes. 



6. Tine hot day. 



7. Appearances forebode rain. — I have observed 

 that, Avlien rain is approaching, the stones (^ which are 

 the rock stone of the country), with which a piazza 

 adjoining the house is paved, get ivet. This wet appears, 

 at first, at the top of each round stone, and, then, by 

 degrees, goes all over it. Rain is s?/re to follow. It has 

 never missed ; and, which is very curious, the rain 

 lasts exactly as long as the stones take to get all over 

 wet before it conies ! The stones dry again before the 

 rain ceases. However, this foreknowledge of rain is of 

 little use here ; for, when it comes, it is sure to be soon 

 gone; and to be succeeded by a sun, whiali restores all 

 to rights. 



7. I wondered, at first, why I never saw any iaro- 

 melers in people's houses, as almost every farmer has 

 them in England. But, I soon found, that they would 

 be, if perfectly true, of no use. Early pears ripe. 



8. Fine rain. It comes pouring down. 



9. Rain still, which has now lasted 60 hours. — Killed 

 a lamb, and, in order to keep it fresh, sunk it down iqto 

 ^he %cell — The wind makes the Indian corn bend, ^ 



