CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1817. 



August 23. 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. Fine hot day. 



25. Fine hot day. 



26. Fine hot day. 



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

 days. 



28. Windy and rather coldish. Put on cotton stockings 

 and a waistcoat with sleeves. Do not like this 

 weather. 



29. Same weather. Do not like it. 



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

 hogs. Get some hazle-nuts in the wild grounds. 

 Larger than the English : and much about the same 

 taste. 



31. Fine hot day. Prodigious dews. 

 Sept. i. Fine and hot. 



2. Fine and hot. 



3. Famously hot. Fine breezes. Began imitating the 

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

 &quot; plucking the ears of corn &quot; 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 Corn. 

 We shall not starve now. 



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



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



6. Same weather. 



7. Same weather. 



8. Same weather. 



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

 25 ears of Corn a day. With me it wholly supplies 

 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 of a good 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 Disciples were tempted to pluck it when 

 they were hungry, though it was on the Sabbath 

 day ! 



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

 neighbours began 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. 

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