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JULY 15th. 



Climate. Thundershower. Subsequent Freshness. Fog. Agricultural 

 Productions. Weeds. Canada Thistle. Burr-weed. Spurry. Blue 

 Bird. Baltimore Oriole. Humming Birds. Dewberry. Raspberry. 

 Timothy Grass. Indian Wickup. Orange Lily. Fox-coloured 

 Sparrow. Orange Comma Butterfly. Pearly Eye. Eyed Brown. 

 Compton Tortoise. Remarkable variety of Forked Butterfly. Banded 

 Purple. Dragon Moth. Coerulean. Pink Arches. Twin Gold-spot. 

 Clouded Cream. Spotted Lemon. Drab Plume. Caterpillar of Va- 

 pourer, of Grey Comma Butterfly. Dragon Fly. Hoof Boletus. 

 Toad Beetle its Larva and Pupa Habit of counterfeiting Death. 

 Skunk its fetid Odour Mode of Emission Habits. Blue and Gold 

 Cerambyx. Black and Yellow Whame-fly. Punctured Beetle. 

 Sweet-scented Milkweed. Resort of Insects. Dandelion. Scatter- 

 ing of Seeds. 



CHARLES. What a strange climate is ours ! a climate of 

 extremes. A few months ago the thermometer was down 

 to 30 below Zero: now it is ranging from 90 to 100 

 above : showing an annual range, that perhaps scarce any 

 other part of the world can equal. 



FATHER. It has been very hot lately ; and the cloud- 

 less atmosphere, through which the sun darts the full blaze 

 of his beams, makes the heat in the open air exceedingly 

 oppressive, almost too hot to labour. But the thunderstorm 

 of last evening cooled the air, and laid the dust, which rose 

 before in choking volumes. 



