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29928 inches; it then turned to decrease, and was 29*179 

 inches on the 18th at midnight; it continued at about this 

 value on the 19th and 20th ; it then began to increase slowly, 

 and reached 29*8 inches on the 26th at midnight ; it then 

 alternately decreased and increased by small quantities till the 

 last day, when for the first time in the month it reached the 

 point 30 inches. 



From May 1 to 14 its readings were above 30 inches, the 

 highest being 30*217 inches on the 1 1th at 6 h a.m ; this value 

 decreased to 29*155 inches on the 1 7th at 6 h p.m. ; it increased 

 to 30 inches on the 20th, and to 30*169 inches on the 24th ; 

 it passed below 30 inches on the 26th, and to the end of the 

 month the changes were small. 



During June the reading was generally low ; its extreme 

 readings were 29*143 inches on the 3rd, and 30*015 inches on 

 the 20th. 



The heavy rains in April, following the wet weather of Fe- 

 bruary and March, caused the land to be in a soddened state, 

 and rivers generally to be much swollen. The thunder-storms 

 in many places did much damage. The months of February, 

 March, and April were so wet that the spring corn was sown 

 with much difficulty. The month of May was distinguished 

 by high temperatures, cloudless skies both day and night for 

 a long period, very small falls of rain, with only the average 

 amount of water mixed with the air, notwithstanding the high 

 temperature, so that the degree of humidity was small. The 

 earth became sun-baked, and so hard as to be almost unbreak- 

 able ; vegetation was greatly checked. During the month 

 of June the earth became again saturated ; the crops improved, 

 and at the end of the quarter there was every prospect of a 

 full average produce. 



The observer at Leeds says, " that in April the diseases in 

 the lungs affecting cattle and sheep were extremely frequent 

 and generally fatal. In May, notwithstanding the great heat 

 during the days, the almost nightly occurrence of white frosts 

 checked the growing vegetation greatly ; the disease among 

 cattle and sheep was in a great measure stopped. In June, 

 with the return of wet and cold weather, the disease among 

 cattle again appeared. So fatal a season to milch cows has 

 not occurred within my remembrance in this neighbourhood. 

 The potato crop is free from disease, and this vegetable is 

 so abundant, that I have never known it so cheap before at 

 this season." 



The observer at Beckington says, " I have heard a good 

 deal of the potato disease in this parish, but my own are in 

 as healthy a state as they have ever been. The severe frost 



