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fcarce any rain, after which the weather was ftormy to the 4th 

 of 0(flober. 



This month was moftly wcc until the 21ft, and from that 

 day to the 3ifl dry. 



In November- rains were frequent until the 19th. The 26th 

 the wind was E. and there feems to have been fome froft the 

 fucceeding nightSr 



December was moftly dry Until the 26th, though the wind 

 was generally W, S< or S. W. It grew floriny on the 15th, and 

 fo continued to the i8th, and afterwards Continued fo with 

 fliort intervals to the end. Thefe ftorms were ffloftly frortl 

 the W. or S.W, 



June and Oc^obfer were the moft rainy month;? in London), 

 each produced above three cubic inches, and the whole year 

 21.976. I have feen no account of the quantity fallen irt: Dub- 

 lin, but I form no doubt but it waff much greater, - 



The lafl month of'iySS and the firfl of 1789. were remark- 

 ably cold, as well on the Continent of Europe as m Great Britain 

 and Ireland; and it has been obferved that the cold was pi'opor- 

 tionably greater in the fouthern than in the northern parts of 

 Europe, which would induce one to think that the eafterly winds 

 which produced this cold proceeded from Tartary and the v 

 fouthern parts of Siberia between the 55th and 40th degrees of 



latitude* 



