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in general ufe, in certainty of produce, and intrinfic value*; arc 

 circumftances which have not fallen to the lot of other nations, 

 and bring with them clear and irrefragable evidence to demonftrate 

 a falubrious country, a genial climate, and a fertile foil in 

 Ireland. 



Conclufion, 



In this Memoir I have endeavoured to prove from natural, 

 and almoft incontrovertible regifters of the phasnomena of later 

 years, that the winds, and particularly the weftern ftorms, have 

 fwept with encreafed violence over Ireland. 



From this fadt 1 have deduced a necefl'ary change in its climate ; 

 a more general equability of temperature through the year ; fum- 

 mers lefs warm, and winters more mild and open : and, laftly, 

 I have endeavoured to fupport this conclufion by general obferva- 

 tion, and the enumeration of particular inftances where the defe£l 

 of fummer heat and winter ice feem to be moft ftrongly marked. 



One queftion ftill remains, curious in its principle, and intereft- 

 ing in its folution — Why have thefe weftern ftorms blown with 

 unufual and encreafed violence ? 



The 



* After a ptogrefiive encfeafe of nihety years, the exports of linen cloth alone, in 

 the year 1792, amounted to foity-three millions of yards, from one million only at the 

 commencement of the prefent century. 



