A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett].
- William Cobbett
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![. | = Chap. I] J OURNAL.—SEPTEMBER. 15 29, Same weather. Do not like it. 30. Fine and hot again. Give a great many apples to hogs. Got some hazle-nuts in the wild grounds. Larger than the English: and much about the same taste, 31. Fine hot day. Prodigious dews. SEPTEMBER. 1 & 2, Fine and hot. ; 3: Famously hot. Fine breezes. Began imitating the Disciples, at least in their diet; for, to-day, we be- gan “‘ plucking the ears of corn” in a patch planted in the garden on the second of June. But, we, in imitation of Pindar’s pilgrim, take the liberty to boil our Corn, We shall not starve now. 4, Fine and hot. 83 degrees under the Locust-trees. 5. Very hot indeed, but tair, with our old breeze. 6, 7, & 8. Same weather. 9. Rather hotter. We, amongst seven of us, eat about 25 ears of Corn a-day. With me it wholly sup- plies the place of bread. It is the choicest gift of God to man, in the way of food. I remember, that Arrnur Youne observes, that the proof of a good climate is, that Indian Corn comes to perfection init. Our Corn is very fine. I believe, that a wine-glass full of milk ciples were tempted to pluck it when they were hun- gry, though it was on the Sabbath day! 10. Appearances for rain; and, it is time; for my neighbours begin to cry out, and our rain-water cistern begins to shrink, The well is there, to be sure; but, to pull up water from 70 feet is no joke,” while it requires nearly as much sweat to get it up, as we get water. | 11. Norain; but cloudy. 83 degrees in the shade. 12. Rain and very hot in the morning. Thunder and heavy rain at night. : 13. Cloudy and cool. Only 55 degrees in shade. 14. Cloudy and cool. 15. Fair and cool’ Madea fire to write by. Don’t like this weather. 16. Rain, warm. . 17. Beautiful day. Not very hot. Just like a fine day in July in England after a rain. |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028680_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
