Chap. I.] Journal.— March. 39 



17. Precisely same weather. 

 18 & 19, Same weather. 



20. Sanie weather. Opened several pits, in which I 

 had presened all sorts of garden-plants and roots, and 

 apples. Valuable experiments. As useful in England 

 as here, though not so absolutely necessary. 1 shall 

 communicate these in another part of my work, under 

 the head of Gardening. 



21. Same weather. The day like a fine May-day 

 in England. I am Amting without fire, and in my 

 waistcoat without coat. 



22. Rain all last night, and all this day, 



23. Mild and fine. A sow had a litter of pigs in the 

 leaves nnder the trees. Judge of the weather by this. 

 The wind blows cold; but, she has drawn together 

 great heaps of leaves, and protects her young ones with 

 surprising sagacity and exemplary care and fondness. 



24. Same weather. 



25. Still mild and fair, 



2G. Very cold wind. We try to get the sow and 

 pigs into the buildings. But the pigs do not follow, and 

 we cannot, with all our temptations of corn and all our 

 caresses, get the sow to move without them by her side. 

 She must remain 'till they choose to travel. How does 

 nature, through the conduct of this animal, reproach 

 those mothers, who cast oil' their new-born infants to 

 depend on a hireling's breast! Let every young man, 

 before he marry, read, upon this subject, the pretty 

 poem of Mr. RoscoK, called "theNuRSK;" and, let 

 him also read, on the same subject, the eloquent, 

 beautiful, and soul-alTecting passage, in Rousseau's 

 " Einilc" 



27. Fine warm day. Then high wind, rain, snoAv, 

 and hard frost before morning. 



28. Hard frost. Snow 3 inches deep. 



29. Frost in the night ; but, all thawed in the day, 

 and very warm. 



30. Frost in niglit. Fine warm day. 



31. Fine warm day. As the winter is now gone, let 

 us take a look back at its inconveniences compared with 

 those of an Enr/lish Winter. We have had three 

 months of it; for, if ■we had a few sharp days in De- 



