26 /; CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 

 1817. H 



July 10. venient, affair. Shoes, trowsers, 

 shirt and hat. No plague of dres 

 sing and undressing ! 



11. Fine hot day in the morning, but 

 began to grow dark in the afternoon. 

 A sort of haze came over. 



12. Very hot day. The common black 

 cherries, the little red honey cher 

 ries, all ripe now, and falling and 

 rotting by the thousands of pounds 

 weight. But this place which I 

 rent is remarkable for abundance 

 of cherries. Some early peas, sown 

 in the second week in June, fit for 

 the table. This is thirty days from 

 the time of sowing. No flies yet ! 

 No musquitoes! 



13. Hot and heavy, like the pleading of 

 a quarter-sessions lawyer. No breeze 

 to-day, which is rarely the case. 



14. Fine day. The Indian corn four 

 feet high. 



15. Fine day. We eat turnips sown on 

 the second of June. Early cabbages 

 (a gift) sown in May. 



16. Fine hot day. Fine young onions, 

 sown on the 8th of June. 



17. Fine hot day. Harvest of wheat, 



