14 Journal.— August. [Part I. 



10. Fine clear hot day. The grass, which was 

 brown the day belore yesterday, is already beautifully 

 green. In one place, where there appeared no signs 

 of vegetation, the grass is tico inches high. 



11. Heavy rains at night. 

 12 & 13. 'Hot and close. 



14. Hot and close. No breezes these three days. 



15. Very hot indeed. 80 degrees in a North aspect 

 at 9 in the evening. Three wet shirts to-day. Obliged 

 to put on a dry shirt to go to bed in. 



16. Very hot indeed. 85 degrees; the thermometer 

 hanging under the Locust-trees and swinging about with 

 the breeze. The dews are now like heavy showers. 



17. Fine hot day. Very hot. I fight the Bo- 

 rough-villains, stripped to ray shirt, and with nothing 

 on besides, but shoes and trowsers. Never ill; no 

 head-aches; no muddled brains. The milk and toater 

 is a great cause of this. I live on salads, other garden 

 vegetables, apple-puddings and pies, butter, cheese, 

 {very good from Rhode Island) eggs, and bacon. Re- 

 solved to have no more fresh meat, 'till cooler weather 

 comes. Those who have a mind to swallow, or be 

 swallowed by, /iies, may eat fresh meat for me. 



18. Fine and hot. 



19. Very hot. 



20. Very hot ; but a breeze every day and night. 

 Buckwheat, sown 23rd July, 9 inches high, and, poor 

 as the ground was, looks very well. 



21 & 22. Fine hot days. 



23. Fine hot day. I have now got an English 

 woman-servant, and she makes us famous apple-pud- 

 dings. She says she has never read Peter Pindar's 

 account of the dialogue between the King and the Cot- 

 tage-woman ; and yet she knows very well how to get 

 the apples within side of the paste. N.B. No man 

 ought to come here, whose wife and daughters cannot 

 make puddings and pies. 



24, 25, & 26. Fine hot days. 



27. Fine hot day. Have not seen a cloud for many days. 



28. Windy and rather coldish. Put on cotton stock- 

 ings and a waistcoat with sleeves. Do not like this 

 weather. 



