32 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &;c. Part I. 



Oct. 11. Beautiful day. 61 degrees in shade. 

 Have not put on coat yet. Wear thin 

 stockings, or socks. Waistcoat with 

 sleeves and neck cloth. In New-York 

 Market, Kidney Beans and Green Peas, 



12. Beautiful day. 70 degrees in shade. i 



13. Same weather. 



14. Rain. 50 degrees in shade. Like a 

 fine, warm June rain in England. 



15. Beautiful day. 56 degrees in shade. 

 Here is a month of October ! 



16. Same weather. 51 degrees in shade. 



17. Same weather. But a little warmer in 

 the day. A smart frost this morning. 

 The Kidney Beans, Cucumber and Melon 

 plants, pretty much cut by it. 



18. A little rain in the night. A most beau- 

 tiful day. 54 degrees in shade. A June 

 day for England. 



1 9. A very rvhite frost this morning. Kidney 

 Beans, Cucumbers, Melons, all demolish- 

 ed ; but a beautiful day. 56 degrees in 

 shade. 



20. Another frost, and just such another day. 

 — Threshing Buckwheat in field. 



21. No frost. 58 degrees in shade. 



22. Finest of English June days. 67 degrees 

 in shade. 



23. Beautiful day. 70 degrees in shade. 

 Ver}'^ few summers in England that have a 

 day hotter than this. It is this fine sun 

 that makes the fine apples ! 



54. Same weather precisely. Finished Buck- 

 wheat threshing and winnowing. The 

 men have been away at a horse-race ; 

 so that it has laid out in the field, partly 

 threshed and partly not, for five days. If 

 rain had come, it would have been of no 

 consequence. All would have been dry 



