CLIMATE. 125 from the south-west, sometimes accompanied with thunder and lightning, Occur during these months about once a-week, or every ten days, which generally shift the wind to the nojjth-west, and produce for a short time an agreeable coolness. The nights at this season exceed in splendour the most beautiful ones in . To pourtray them in their true colours, would require more than any language can accomplish! or any pencil, but that of imagination, can execute. The air, notwithstand¬ ing the heat of the preceding day, is always pure; the sea generally unruffled, and its surface one vast mirror, reflecting with precision every visible object, either in the heavens or on the earth. The moon shines with a soft, silverlike brilliancy, and, during her retirement, the stars are seen in their utmost efful¬ gence. Fishes of various species sport on the water ; the singular note of whip-poor-will is heard from the woods ; the fire-fly floats on the air, oscillating its vivid sparks; and, where the hand of man has subdued the forest, and laid the ground under the control of husbandry, may be heard the voice of the milk-maid, or the " drowsy tinkling of the distant fold." In another direction may often be seen the light of the birch torch, which thcMick-mack Indian uses in the prow of his canoe, while engaged with his spear in fishing. In September, the weather is extremely pleasant; the days are very warm until after the middle of the month, but the evenings are agreeably cool, followed by dews at night; and about, but generally after, the