The bread is very good, potatoes are 8d. He desired to be remembered to you. I cannot send any news more satisfactory to you about him. I think the climate is delightful. Also gilliflowers, mignonettes and very pretty evergreen shrubs abound.
Peas are in some places in pod.
I have seen them about a quarter of a yard high. There are slight white frosts in a morning, and the nights are cold, but the days are very pleasant. The rainy season is expected soon, then it will be less pleasant, the scenery is most romantic and picturesque. But the rivers so highly extolled in the publications, are I believe by no means so large or so grand as they are described. I have been but a little way into the country, they say imagination cannot conceive any thing more sublime than some of the rivers are.