CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1817. 



Nov 



12. Same weather. 69 degrees in shade. 



13. Beautiful day, but cooler. 



14. Same weather. 50 degrees in shade. The high-ways 

 and paths as clean as a boarded floor ; that is to 

 say, from dirt or mud. 



15. Gentle rain. 53 in shade. Like a gentle rain in 

 May in England. 



16. Gentle rain. Warm. 56 in shade. What a 

 November for an English man to see ! My white 

 turnips have grown almost the whole of their growth 

 in this month. The Swedish, planted late, grow 

 surprisingly now, and have a luxuriancy of appear 

 ance exceeding any thing of the kind I ever saw. 

 We have fine loaved lettuce, endive, young onions, 

 young radishes, cauliflowers with heads five inches 

 over. The rye fields grow beautifully. They have 

 been food for cattle for a month, or six weeks, past. 



17. Cloudy. Warm. 



1 8. Same weather. 55 degrees in shade. 



19. Frost, and the ground pretty hard. 



20. Very fine indeed. Warm. 55 degrees in shade. 



21. Same weather. 



22. Cold, damp air, and cloudy. 



23. Smart frost at night. 



Same. Warm in the day time. 



Same ; but more warm in the day. 



30. Fine warm and beautiful day ; no frost at night. 



57 degrees in shade. 



Dec. i. Same weather precisely ; but, we begin to fear the 

 setting-in of winter, and I am very busy in covering 

 up cabbages, mangle wurzle, turnips, beets, carrots, 

 parsnips, parsley, &c., the mode of doing which (not 

 less useful in England than here, though not so indis 

 pensably necessary) shall be described when I come 

 to speak of the management of these several plants. 

 Fine warm rain. 56 in shade. 

 TVery fair and pleasant, but frost sufficiently hard 

 to put a stop to our getting up and stacking 

 turnips. Still, however, the cattle and sheep 

 j do pretty well upon the grass which is long and 

 s dead. Fatting oxen we feed with the greens of 

 Ruta Baga, with seme corn (Indian, mind) tossea 

 down to them in the ear. Sheep (ewes that had 

 lambs in spring) we kill very fat from the grass. 

 -No dirt. What a clean and convenient soil ! 



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