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green materially injured by this Salt Wind, all the leaves exposed 
to it being more or less scorched, and in some places even the 
tops of the branches mortified. The Furze of our commons, if 
I may judge from the east side being invariably most decayed, 
is also affected by it, yet I saw this plant in abundance in De- 
vonshire and Cornwall, where it must perpetually be exposed to 
such blasts. | 
The farthest place to the westward that I visited the following 
summer was Bulstrode, where many of the trees had suffered 
severely: from thence to the mouth of the Thames, the last 
place where this wind could have taken up any salt spray, can- 
not be a less distance than seventy miles. In travelling through 
part of Essex so late as September, the effect of the Salt Wind 
was still more and more evident as the sea was approached. 
About South End, I was told the Hollies had been nearly de- 
foliated, and even the Oaks and Ashes then appeared to have 
fewer leaves on their east than west sides. The Laurustinusses 
generally seemed burnt as if by fire, with scarce any symptoms 
of vegetation in their upper branches. I looked in vain for the 
Bay-tree during my wholeride. - — —. — |. |: 
As for the more tender esculent vegetables, few escaped; the 
first crop, of Peas, Beans, Early Radishes, and young Lettuces, 
being generally destroyed. Of our garden flowers, Ranunculusses 
instantly perished ; but their relations in natural affinity, Winter 
Aconites and Anemonies, as 1 have since had an opportunity of 
remarkiag, are not at all affected by this wind. Snowdrops, Cro- 
cusses, Hyacinths, and Narcissusses are also insensible of its in- 
fluence. Those plants that flourish near the sea were naturally 
protected. The beautiful Cypress, Red Cedar, Evergreen Oak, 
Arbutus, Myrtle, Phillyrea, Alaternus, Rosemary, Lavender, and, 
I believe, Laurel are of this number. Wheat also - escaped, 
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