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MEMOIR on the CLIMATE of IRELAND. By the Rev. 

 WILLIAM HAMILTON, of Fanet, in the County of Donegal; 

 late Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; M.R.I. A..* 

 Correjponding Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Ssfc. 



It is generally fuppofed that the feafons, in our ifland, have ReadDec.ff, 

 fufFered a confiderable change, almoft within the memory of the ''^''" 

 prefent generation. The Winters of our climate are faid to 

 have laid afide their ancient horrors, and frequently to have 

 aflumed the mildnefs and vegetative powers of Spring ; while 

 Summer is reprefented as lefs favourable than heretofore ; lefs genial 

 in promoting vegetation, and lefs vigorous in forwarding the fruits 

 of the earth to maturity. 



It is indeed true that, in this inftance, popular opinion does 

 not ftand fupported by the concurrent teftimony of meteorological 

 obfervations : There is no clear evidence derivable from them, that 

 the prefent feafons are materially different from former ones; 



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