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



1818. 



March 28. Hard frost. Snow 3 inches deep. 



29. Frost in the night; but, all thawed 

 in the day, and very warm. 



30. Frost in night. Fine warm day. 



31. Fine warm day. As the winter is 

 now gone, let us take a look back 

 at its inconveniences compared with 

 those of an English Winter. We 

 have had three months of it ; for, if 

 we had a few days sharp in De 

 cember, we have had many very fine 

 and without Jire in March. In 

 England winter really begins in No 

 vember, and does not end 'till Mid- 

 March. Here we have greater cold; 

 there four times as much wet. I 

 have had my great coat on only twice, 

 except when sitting in a stage, tra- 



, veiling. I have had gloves on no 

 oftener ; for, I do not, like the Clerks 

 of the Houses of Boroughmongers, 

 write in gloves. I seldom meet a 

 waggoner with gloves or great coat 

 on. It is generally so dry. This 

 is the great friend of man and beast. 

 Last summer Iivrote home for nails 

 to nail my shoes for winter. I could 

 find none here. What a foolish 

 people, not to have shoe-nails ! I 



