g6 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &c. Part I. 



ed a water-melon runner, which grew 

 eighteen inches in the last 48 hours. The 

 dews now are equal to showers. I fre- 

 quently, in the morning, wash hands, 

 face, feet and legs in the dews on the high 

 grass. The Indian Corn shoots up now 

 so beautifully ! 

 July 30. Still melting hot. 

 31. Same weather. 

 August 1 . Same weather. I take off two shirts a 

 day wringing wet. I have a clothes horse 

 to hang them on to dry. Drink about 20 

 good tumblers of milk and water every 

 day. No ailments. Head always clear. 

 Go to bed by day light very often. Just 

 after the hens go to roost, and rise again 

 with them. 



2. Hotter and hotter, I think ; but, in this 

 weather we always have our friendly 

 breeze. JVot a single Musquito yet. 



3. Cloudy and a little shattering of rain ; but 

 not enough to lay the dust. 



4. Fine hot day. 



5. A very little rain. Dried up in a minute. 

 Planted cabbages with dust running into 

 the holes. 



6. Fine hot day. 



7. Appearances forbode rain. — I have ob- 

 served that, when rain is approaching, the 

 stones (which are the rock stone of the 

 country), with which a piazza adjoining 

 the house is paved, ^e^ Tn^et. This wet ap- 

 pears, at first, at the top of each round 

 j'tone, and, then, by degrees, goes all over 

 it. Rain is si(7'e to follow. It has never 

 missed ; and, which is very curious, the 

 rain lasts exactly as long as the stones 

 take to get all over wet before it comes ! 

 The stones get dry again before the rain 



