CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. - 41 



1817. 

 Oct. 18. beautiful day. 54 degrees in shade. 



A June day for England. 



19. A very white frost this morning. 

 Kidney beans, cucumbers, melons, 

 all demolished ; but a beautiful day. 

 56 degrees in shade. 



20. Another frost, and just such ano 

 ther day. Threshing Buckiuheat 

 in field. 



21. No frost. 58 degrees in shade. 



22. Finest of English June days. 67 

 degrees in shade. 



23. Beautiful day. 70 degrees in shade. 

 Very few summers in England that 

 have a day hotter than this. It is 

 this fine sun that makes the fine 

 apples ! 



24. Same weather precisely. Finished 

 Buckwheat threshing and winnow 

 ing. The men have been away at 

 a horse-race ; so that it has laid out 

 in the field, partly threshed and part 

 ly not, for five days. If rain had 

 come, it would have been of no con 

 sequence. All would have been dry 

 again directly afterwards. What a 

 stew a man would be in, in Eng 

 land, if he had his grain lying 

 about out of doors in this way ! 



