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Vegetable Statkks. 



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the ioth of 'January to the 29th of March 

 was a very dry feafon; when the green 

 Wheat was generally the fincft that was 

 ever remembrcd. But from the 29th of 

 March 1725, to the 29 th of September fol- 

 lowing, it rained more or lefs almoft c - 

 very day, except 10 or 12 days, about the 

 beginning of July, and that whole feafou 

 continued fo very cool, that the fpirit in 

 the firft Thermometer role but to 24 degrees, 

 except now and then a fhort interval of 

 Sunfhinei the fecond only to 20 degrees; 

 the fifth and fixth to 24 and 23 degrees, 

 with very little variation : So that during 

 this whole fummcr, thofe parts of roots 

 which were two feet under ground , had 3 

 or 4 degrees more warmth than thofe 

 which were but two inches under ground: 

 And at a medium the general degrceofheat, 

 thro' this whole fummcr , both above and 

 under ground, was not greater than the heat 

 of the middle of the preceding September. 



The year 1725, having been both in this 

 Ifland, and in the neighbouring Nations, 

 mod remarkably wet and cold; and the 

 year 1723, in the other extream, as rermr- 



ably dry, as has ever been known $ it ^ 



not 



