CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. $5 



1818. 



Jan. 15. height. " As high as Crooksbury 

 Hiir meant, with us, the utmost 

 degree of height. Therefore, the 

 first object that my eyes sought was 

 this hill. / could not believe my 

 eyes! Literally speaking, I for a 

 moment, thought the famous hill 

 removed, and a little heap put in its 

 stead ; for I had seen, in New Bruns 

 wick, a single rock, or hill of solid 

 rock, ten times as big, and four or 

 five times as high ! The post-boy, 

 going down hill and not a bad road, 

 whisked me, in a few minutes to the 

 Bush Inn, from the garden of which 

 I could see the prodigious sand 

 hill y where I had begun my garden 

 ing works. What a nothing! But 

 now came rushing into my mind, all 

 at once, my pretty little garden, my 

 little blue smock-frock, my little 

 nailed shoes, my pretty pigeons that 

 I used to feed out of my hands, the 

 last kind words and tears of my 

 gentle and tender-hearted and affec 

 tionate mother! I hastened back 

 into the room. If I had looked 

 a moment longer, I should have 

 dropped. When I came to reflect, 



