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mosquitoes, excepting a very few at night. I take a nap every day and have been doing so since I came up here, any time in the day, without any bar and am as free from annoyance as I could be at the Hermitage or any where else, we have a good deal of fruit peaches, grapes, figs &c, and will soon have shrimps. we have had a few, I think I shall like them very much. we get very good beef every other day, have tongues, corn beef, ham & a few chickens this is our bill of fare. we have also plenty of milk, in all its varieties, pies, preserves, &c?the weather here is too warm to kill mutton, or any thing to keep on hand more than one or at farthest two nights. consequently every day has to provide for itself?money is very scarce. we can procure any thing and every thing if we had plenty ready cash. our city folks, and old residents live like nabobs. I can not do this consequently I never have entertained any yet and visit very little, except to call in the cool of the evening. Dick has been sick. he has made up his mind to trouble and annoy me as much as he can, and I am teaching a new cook, and think I shall do very well?you would laugh to see him strutting around with his apron one, and his important air, but he has learned to make buiscuit, coffe, stake &c also cobbler already, and is delighted with his new vocation. now guess who it is.? I_have_two good dairies built under the house, which I shall find a great convenience, they are airtight, and I think will be cool. we have pretty good water, free stone, it only needs ice to be excellent. if we continue here as permanent residents, I think we can make every thing around us very comfortable. Mr. Jackson has shot five aligators, some of them very large but he does not enjoy fishing as much here, as at Clifton. Sami, visits a good deal, there