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3s. Some for feed as high as 3s. 6d. Oats 2S. 3d. to 2s. cj^. Beant 

 and peas 3s. pd. to 4s. 3d. per the fame meafure. The Winchefter 

 bnfhel is not ufed in Scotland ; hut the prices are here reduced to that 

 itandard for the Information of En-ghlh readers. 



Fat caitle and fheep have alfo brought much the fame prices as for- 

 metly reported, and the quantity on hand is not fupnofed to be confi- 

 derable. As a full fupply of food was generally polfcffed by every 

 farmer, the markets were not glutted like thofe of lad feafon when ar- 

 ticles were fold at an undervalue, that is, when compared with the rates 

 at which (lock were purchafed in the preceding autumn. Great ewe« 

 of the Highland breed advanced about is. 6d. /?. head ; and their lambs, 

 from the late good weather, and plentifulnefs of food, have hitherto 

 thriven as well as could be wiflied. 



On the 19th of this month, a fevere hurricane from the weft did 

 much damage in this county. Several ftack-yards were completely un- 

 covered ; many fields of light land, newly fown, were fo much blown, 

 that fome, it is fuppofed, will require to be feeded a fecond time ; nay, 

 even fome fields of clay occupied by winter wheat, and which were mel- 

 lowed by froft, received confiderable injury. The preceding week was 

 fo uncommonly hot as to exhauft the furface of moifture, while the 

 fame caufe rendered the ropes and covering of the Hacks unable to refifi: 

 the fiercenefs of the gale, and occafioned a figlit in many places fome- 

 thing like what may be figured when a fleet of ililps are wrecked. 



At a meeting of this county, to confider the malt-tax of laft Sefllon, 

 fome refolutlons were propofed, and a motion was made, to inftruft the 

 Honourable Colonel Hope, their member, to join with other Scotlfn 

 members, In procuring an alteration of the prefent duty. After a good 

 deal of argumcp.t, a committee was appointed to correfpond with Colonel 

 Hope ; but, fo far as known, tlie committee have not entered upou 

 their deliberations. April 22. 



Mid-Lothian ^mrierly Report. 



The froft which commenced in the month of January, with confi- 

 derable feverity, gave a feafonable check to vegetation : it became more 

 moderate in the month of February, and went off without any of thofe 

 torrents of rain which frequently occur at what Is termed the breaking 

 i^p of the ftorm ; of courfe, grafs ground was in a ftate for ploughing 

 as foon as the abfence of froft did permit ; and every other fpecies of 

 field labour foon followed in courfe. 



The fovving of oats and beans commenced about the middle of March, 

 and continued without fo much as a fhower to interrupt its progrefs 

 until all was got finlfhed. Since that period the weather has continued 

 dry, with an incrcafed degree of heat. Laft week It was fo vrey warm as 

 rather to refemble the month of July than April. Such a remaikable 

 feed time Is certainly in the remembrance of very few. 



But on Tucfday, the 19th current, a fad revtrfe took place. It 



^lo'/ved a downright tornado, with violent blafts of hail at intervals, 



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