3.6 CLIMATE, SEASONS, kc. Part I. 



Dec. 10. Open mild weather. 



11. Same weather. Very pleasant. 



12. Rain began last night. 



13. Rain all day. 



14. Rain all day. The old Indian remark irf, 

 , that the winter does not set in, 'till the 



ponds be full. It is coming, then. 



15. Rain 'till 2 o'clock. We kill mutton now. 

 Ewes, brought from Connecticut, and sold 

 to me here at two dollars each in July, 

 just after shearing. I sell them now alive 

 at three dollars each from the grass. Kill- 

 ed and sent to market, they leave me the 

 loose fat for candles and fetch about 3 

 dollars and a quarter besides. 



16. Sharp North West wind. This is the cold 

 American Wind. " A North Wester'^'' means 

 all that can be imagined of clear in sum- 

 mer and cold in winter. I remember 

 hearing from that venerable and excellent 

 man, Mr. Baron Maseres, a very ele- 

 gant eulogium on the Summer North West- 

 er in England. This is the only public 

 servant that I ever heard of, who refused 

 z. prqff'ered augmentation of salary! 



17. A hardish frost. 



18. Open weather again. 



19. Fine mild day; but began freezing at 

 night-fall. 



20. Hard frost. 



21. Very sharp indeed. Thermometer down 

 to 10 degrees ; that is to say, 22 degrees 

 colder than barely freezing. 



22. Same weather. Makes us run, where we 

 used to walk in the fall, and to saunter in 

 the summer. It is no new thing to me ! 

 but it makes our other English people 

 shrug up their shoulders. 



23. Frost greatly abated. Stones show for 



