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mattrasses are stuffed with dry fern, like what grows on
Peakdown, and Longdown. Again, Valete. Thursday Evening
Instead of going to Dunwick, we drove out into the country
Johnston and Winlow two land agents drove us out in
their buggy. We went over two or three farms. We have driven
over more than fifty miles to-day, and partly over the
corduroy road. These are not exaggerated, they are
awfully rough and uneven, but they are only in the
more remote districts. I do not think that we shall
look at any more farms in this immediate neighbourhood.
Prices run too high, and the farmers think they can
get it out of you. With love, good night. Friday Night morning
I am again at London, waiting for the train, and hope
to be down on the shores of Lake Erie in the county of
Norfolk, before I go to bed. The thermometer stands at about
100 in the shade. So you see it is excessively hot. I do not
feel it uncomfortably so, but then I do not mind heat,
and I am cooly dressed. Cotton socks, check shirt coat,
trousers, vest, and shirt collar. It is a delightfully cool
suit. Our clothing will stand in good and useful
Cloth - clothing is very dear out here, and does not last
like things made in England. Light American shoes