Chap. t. CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 3b 



Nov. 18. Same weather. 55 degrees in shade. 



19. Frost and the ground pretty hard. 



20. Very fine indeed. Warm. 65 degrees in 

 shade. 



2 1 . Same weather. 



22. Cold, damp air, and cloudy. 



23. Smart frost at night. 



24. \ 

 25 / 



og* > Same. Warm in the day time. 



27. J 



pq J Same ; but more warm in the day. 



30. Fine warm and beautiful day ; no frost at 

 night. 57 degrees in shade. 

 Dec. 1. Same weather precisely ; but, we begin 

 to fear the setting in of winter, and I am 

 very busy in covering up cabbages, man- 

 gle wurzle, turnips, beets, carrots, pars- 

 nips, parsley, &c. the mode of doing which 

 (not less useful in England than here, 

 though not so indispensably necessary) 

 shall be described when I come to speak 

 of the management of these several plants. 

 ^. Fine warm Rain. 56 in shade. 



Very fair and pleasant, but frost suffi- 

 ciently hard to put a stop to our getting 

 up and stacking Turnips. Still, howe- 

 ver, the cattle and sheep do pretty well 

 upon the grass, which is long and dead. 

 Fatting oxen we feed with the greens 

 of Ruta Baga, with some Corn, (Indian, 

 mind) tossed down to them in the ear. 

 Sheep (Ewes that had lambs in spring) 

 we kill very fat from the grass. JVo 

 dirt. What a clean and convenient 

 Lsoil! 

 9. Thaw. No rain. We get on with our 

 work again. 



