CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 45 



1817. 

 Nov. 17. Cloudy. Warm. 



18. Same weather. 55 degrees in shade. 



19. Frost, and the ground pretty hard. 



20. Very fine indeed. Warm. 55 de 

 grees in shade. 



21. Same weather. 



22. Cold, damp air, and cloudy. 



23. Smart frost at night. 



24. \ 



25 f 



> Same. Warm in the day time. 



2(5. ( 

 27. J 



28 } 



Same ; but more warm in the day. 



30. Fine warm and beautiful day; no 

 frost at night. 57 degrees in shade. 

 Dec. 1. 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 indispensably necessary) shall 

 be described when I come to speak 

 of the management of these several 

 plants. 

 2. Fine warm rain. 56 in shade. 



