Our dogs, pigs and fowls, lay panting in the shade, or were rushing into the water.

I remarked that a hen belonging to me, which had sat for a fortnight, frequently quitted her eggs, and shewed great uneasiness, but never remained from them many minutes at one absence; taught by instinct that the wonderful power in the animal body of generating cold in air heated beyond a certain degree, was best calculated for the production of her young.

The gardens suffered considerably.

All the plants which had not taken deep root were withered by the power of the sun.

No lasting ill effects, however, arose to the human constitution.