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. 1] oe OURNAL.—-APRiL. Al APRIL. 1. Very fine and warm, 2 & 3. Same weather. _ 4, Rain all day. 5. Rain all day. Our cistern and pool full. 6. Warm, but no sun. Turkeys begin to lay. 7. Same weather. My first spring operations in gardening are now going on; but I must reserve an ac- - count of them for another Part of my work. 8. Warm and fair, 9. Rain and rather cold. 10. Fair but cold. It rained but yesterday, and we are to-day feeding sheep and lambs with grain of corn, and with oats, upon the ground in the orchard. Judge, then, of the cleanness and conveniaaes of this soil! 11. Fine and warm. 12 & 13. Warm and fair. 14, Drying wind and miserably cold. Fires again in day-time, which i have not had for some days ast., : 15. Warm, like a fine May-day in England. We re planting out selected roots for seed. . 16. Rain all last night. Warm. Very fine in- deed. _ 17. Fine warm day. Heavy thunder and rain at night. The Martins (not swallows) are come into the barn and are looking out sites for the habitations of their future young ones. 18. Cold and raw. Damp, too, which is extremely rare. The worst day I have yet seen during the year. Stops the grass, stops the swelling of the buds. The young chickens hardly peep out from under the wings of the hens. The lambs don’t play, but stand knit up. The pigs growl and squeak; and the birds are > gone away to the woods again. 19. Same weather with an Easterly wind. . Just such a wind as that, which,in March, brushes round the cor- ners of the streets of London, and makes the old, mufiled-up debauchees hurry home with aching joints, Some hail to-day,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028680_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
