1 of an Indian Summer, and it is compensated by a mucli ceider
2 Wiitter. The ibUowiag is an acoaunt of the piogres» of tike seasons
3 at Pesliawer.
4 The mission arrived in the plain of Peshawer on February 23d,
5 Tlie weather was then cold at night, bitt perfectly a^eeabie
6 in t he day, and not hot# even m the sun, at any part of tl ie twentj-
7 four hours. The ground was frequently covered with hoar-frost in
8 . the morning, as late as the 8th of March, but by the middle of that
9 montii the sun was dLsagreeable by eight in the morning. The wea-
10 . tber after this became gradually hotter, and the heat of the sun grew
11 more intense, but the air was often refreshed by showers, and it wa»
12 always cool in the shade, till the first week in Ma}-, when eren the
13 u iiitl b<jgau lo lie heated. At ilie time of our arrival, the new grass
14 wa» springing up throagh the withered grass of the last year ; some of
15 the early trees were budding, but all the other deciduous plants were
16 lMEe» Xlift appieaeh of Ae^ Spring was howevi^ veiy rapid. In the
17 fiiit wsfikin Maidhy pcadi and plum tiM began to Uonom ; apple,
18 qmnce» and miilbeiij UiMWurote-ip bloom kilbeooaafaeoftiheaeeoiKt
19 iWflks bdmthe end of Mndit tbe^ trees- were in fiill i>fiag^ vasfy
20 in A|^ barley began to* be in ear, and it began to be cat down dol-
21 ing the fint W9A in Ma^ Amn that timetbe heat incKeaaed, and
22 WW ofteniiteir^ aefere» eveft in the night, tiOlihe beginning o( Jmti,
23 wfaen Awlibfe nig^ of itraiig.het wind firom dte norlih-weBt was buc-
24 cseded faj aoaii a coolneas in the air as was nneomibrtable in ifiet
25 morning, bnfc pJeiwiuit during the rest of the day. Tfais oodness was
26 not of any great duration, and the heat was at its utmost heag^ hj*
27 ^ 88d of Jnnei wlien we awiscd? tlie Indus. Vblent hot winds
28 iixMn the aoodi Mew aU ni^it, tiH the kst day we were in the plain
29 of Peshawer, when the wind came* RNmd to the north-east, and waa'
30 <ttJigli*Aillj oool. From that time we undeistood that the heat would-
31 Hgpin inrrmiMT till the middle of July, when a cold wind would set in-
32 from the east, and be snooeeded by oool and dondy weather. The
33 lart half of Septanbcv m ondeMtoed was thnjn so oold, as to be
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