32 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1817. 



August 2. this weather we always have our 



friendly breeze. Not a single mus- 



quito yet. 



3. Cloudy and a little shattering of 

 rain; but not enough to lay the dust, 



4. Fine hot day. 



5. A very little rain. Dried up in a 

 minute. Planted cabbages with dust 

 running into the hole 



6. Fine hot day. 



7. Appearances forebode rain. I have 

 observed that, when rain is ap 

 proaching, the stones (which are the 

 rock stone of the country), with 

 which a piazza adjoining the house 

 is paved, get wet. This wet appears, 

 at first, at the top of each round 

 stone, and, then, by degrees, goes 

 all over it. Rain is sure to follow. 

 It has never missed ; and, which is 

 very curious, the rain lasts exactly 

 as long as the stones take to get 

 all over wet before it comes ! The 

 stones dry again before the rain 

 teases. However, this foreknow 

 ledge of rain is of little use here ; 

 for, when it comes, it is sure to be 

 soon gone ; and to be succeeded by 

 a sun, which restores all to rights. 



