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108 Friday February 8th 1850. Fair. Wind NW. air sunny and delightful. How different is this winter from the last I spent. No cold - no snows - no shiverings - no dread of leaving a comfortable bed in the mornings. Now in February - the heat of the sun is annoying during labor. Average of dirt 45 cts per bush. I worked hard for $24 to day - but our holes served us a trick. Weighing an amalgam it reported only $19.35.

    I had a good time working to day - in thinking over times past - and in building castles for the future.  Memory and Imagination - painted one scenes with warm colors.  I had an unpleasant dream last night. My camp bed gets rather hard before morning. I had some very pleasant dreams while I was sick.  It seems most of my pleasant dreams occur while I am unwell my unpleasant ones during health.  A pleasant dream does me more good in this lonely land - them formerly at home.  How quiet - and happy the emotions - on awaking from a pleasant dream.  For a moment the ideas and scenes of the dream are realities to aroused consciousness.  We sink to sleep again - wishing to catch the broken thread - loosing  ourselves in the hope to see the same agreeable things - 
    These are trifling incidents - yet 'tis trifles make us happy or miserable.

Sunday February 10th 1850.

A beautiful sunny day. Spring with fair weather is upon us. The influence of the weather on ones spirits is great. A bright - clervy - sunny morning - lights the bosom with its own radiance.

    Dr. Simms called on us.  Arsenic in minute doses once a day he says is a specificurum for Tic Doloreux.  Climatic influences - us bearing upon consumption are decidedly beneficial when intermitents prevail. At San Diego intermitents prevail place good for consumption patients - at Monterey no intermitents - not good for consumption at San Francisco - intermitents again - again a good climate for consumption.

Copperate of Iron - (Gravid) - a cure for lepra -