ii4 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October, 



Very flight hopes were entertained of the wheat of this feafon ; for 

 extremely dry weather was daily burning it up. Toward the latter 

 end of the month fome rain fell, the firft that had deferved the name 

 of rain fi nee June : but the little which now fell foon ceafed ; and in 

 October the gardens and the corn grounds were again parching for 

 want of moifture. The grafs in the woods was fo dried, that a fingle 

 fpark would have fet the furrounding country in flames ; an inftance, 

 of this did happen early in the month, with the wind blowing ftrong 

 at N. W. The fire was, however, happily checked. 



G'HAPo. 



