Chap. I.] Journal. — September. 15 



29. Same weather. Do not like it, 



30. Fine and hot again. Give a great many apples 

 to hogs. Got some hazle-nuts in the wild grounds. 

 Larger than the English : and much about the same taste. 



31. Fine hot day. Prodigious deics. 



September. 

 1 & 2. Fine and hot. 



3, Famously hot. Fine breezes. Began imitating 

 the Disciples, at least in their diet; for, to-day, we be- 

 gan ^^ plucking the ears of corn" in a patch planted in 

 the garden on the second of June. But, we, in imitation 

 of Pindar's pilgrim, take the liberty to boil our Com. 

 We shall not starve now. 



4, Fine and hot. 83 degrees under the Locust-trees. 



5, Very hot indeed, but lair, with our old breeze. 



6, 7, & 8. Same weather. 



9. Rather hotter. We, amongst seven of us, eat 

 about 25 ears of Corn a-day. With me it wholly sup- 

 phes the place of bread. It is the choicest gift of God 

 to man, in the way of food. I remember, that Arthur 

 Young observes, that the proof oiagood climate is, that 

 Indian Corn comes to perfection in it. Our Corn is 

 very fine. I believe, that a wine-glass full of milk 

 might be squeezed out of one ear. No wonder the Dis- 

 ciples were tempted to pluck it when they were hun- 

 gry, though it Mas on the Sabbath day ! 



10. Appearances for rain; and, it is time; for my 

 neighbours begin to cry out, and our rain-water cistern 

 begins to shrink. The well is there, to be sure ; but, to 

 pull up water from 70 feet is no joke, while it requires 

 nearly as much sweat to get it up, as we get water. 



11. No rain ; but cloudy. 83 degrees in the shade. 



12. Rain and very hot in the morning. Thunder 

 and heavy rain at night. 



13. Cloudy and cool. Only 55 degrees in shade. 



14. Cloudy and c«ol. 



15. Fair and cooL Madeajire to write by. Don't 

 like this Meather. 



16. Rain, warm. 



17. Beautiful day. Not very hot. Just like a fine 

 day in July in England after a rain. 



