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opinions are not altogether well-founded. The 

 year 1775 was the drieft and warmeft feafon that 

 has been known in Scotland within the memory of 

 man, yet the potatoes of that year's crop were 

 watery almoft to a proverb : on the other hand the 

 potatoes of crop 1777, although it was a remakably 

 rainy feafon, were as dry and meally at leaft as is 

 common, and much more fo than in the year 1775. 

 It deferves alfo to be remarked, that the crop of 

 1775 was almoft double in quantity to that of 1777. 

 Hence a dry feafon would feem to augment the 

 produce, though it does not for certain in all cafes 

 improve the quality of this crop. 



The year 1774 was one of the coldeft and moft 

 rainy, that has perhaps been known in Scotland. 

 Quere — Could that have any effect on the produce 

 of the enfuing feafon? If it had, the potatoes of 

 crop 1778 mould be more watery than ufual; for 

 the year 1777 was almoft as cold and rainy as 1774. 

 Obferve if this fhall happen. 



[N. B. The potatoes of 1778 were not more 

 watery than ufual, therefore this conjecture does not 

 feem to be well founded. The year 1782 was the 

 coldeft and wetteft feafon ever known by any man 

 alive: but the potatoes were almoft entirely de- 

 ftroyed by froft in Abcrdeenfhire, before they were 



taken 



