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



1817. 



Aug. 16. cust trees and swinging about with 

 the breeze. The dews are now like 

 heavy showers. 



17. Fine hot day. Very hot. I fight 

 the Borough-villains, stripped to my 



. shirt, and with nothing on besides, 



but shoes and trowsers. Never ill; 

 no head-aches ; no muddled brains. 

 The milk and water is a great cause 

 of this. I live on salads, other 

 garden vegetables, apple-puddings 

 and pies, butter, cheese (very good 

 from Rhode Island), eggs, and ba 

 con. Resolved to have no more fresh 

 meat, 'till cooler weather comes. 

 Those who have a mind to swallow, 

 or be swallowed by, jfties, may eat 

 fresh meat for me. 



18. Fine and hot. 



19. Very hot. 



20. Very hot ; but a breeze every day 

 and night. Buckwheat, sown 23rd 

 July, 9 inches high, and, poor as 

 the ground was, looks very well. 



21. Fine hot day. 



22. Fine hot day. 



23. Fine hot day. I have now got an 

 English woman servant, and she 

 makes us famous apple-puddings. 



