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when I dined in pavilion or in an arbour; and when their 
wings grew again to their original size, ihey continued 
to stay with me, and seemed to have no desire to emi- 
grate. 
The evenings and mornings of the latter end of No- 
vember are so chilling, that colds are very common. 
From the beginning of that month all the frogs and toads 
disappear. 
The 10th of November two scorpions [Scorpio Afri- 
canus, Linn.) were found under the pillow of my bed. Flies 
are here in great quantities till the middle of Novem- 
ber, when they begin to diminish; and at the end of 
November they are not seen again. The gnats go away 
in October. 
The thermometer, placed in the sun on the 1st o* De- 
cember at one o'clock in the afternoon, was at 41°. As 
it continued to rise, and the tube was not adapted for 
its higher ascent, I withdrew it quickly, for fear of its 
breaking. Placing it the same day in the shade, it was 
at 21° 2/ 
The 5th, at ten in the morning, it marked in the sun 
38°, and at one o'clock in the shade 17° 5'. 
On the 9th at twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock of 
the morning, it rose in the sun to 34° ; and at five 
minutes after twelve at noon, in the shade, it was 18° 5'. 
The greatest heat I observed in the shade, was on the 
2d and 3d of September at noon, when the thermometer 
rose to 34° 8'. 
The trees had nearly as many leaves in the middle of 
December as in the preceding month. 
On the 18th of December I saw a stork flying over my 
garden, whilst those three which boarded with me re- 
mained very quiet. There was not one of this kind of 
