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as Meteopological Réport. == funie f, 
ip forwardness of keep abroad has been extremely fortunate, tonsidering the short stock of © — 
@id hay. : yh Sect mnt ar} Late a 
In the north, the weather was very severe during the early part of the spring, but has been 
Since so favourable that thé Lent corn was got in very early, in the best cultivated districts of 
Scotland, and their crops wear the finest appeardnce. Some complaints are made in the north, 
of damage to the fruit-crops; also in thé south, where however the damage is partial; and 
from the immense quantity of blossom, of no great accounts, Good wheat begins to run 
short, imthose counties, which have so liberally supplied the Léndon market. ge stock. 
in general dearer, pigs excepted. e. . tart vs 4 
Smithfield: Beer, 5s. Od. to 6s. 4d. Matton, 5s. 4d. to 6s. Od. Weal, 6s. to 7s. 6d. 5-—~ 
Lamb, 104. to 1s. td. per 1b.;—Pork, 5s. 6d. to 78.14d.;—Bacon, 6s. 8d. to 75. 9d.—lrish ditto, 
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4s. 64. to 5s. 8d. ;—Fat, 3s. 6d. ;—Skins, 153. to 25s.aeQib cake, 12) 
Middlesex, Aptil 25, 1811. : 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. =. |, 
@bservations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of April, 1811, to the 
24th of May, 1811, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. St. Paul's. er 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highest, 29°77. May 6. Wind West, Highest, '70° May 13 and 18. Wind §.B, 
Eowest, 29°00. Apritz8. -—~ South. ~ { Lowest, AS? ieee 5. 2k gti J 
This sort of vari- Ba the morning’ ort 
Qo baa ofthe Greatest el, the 12th, the mefcury 
several times this ‘ 
month, 
Greatest # 33> hun- 
wariationin » dreths of ) variation in was at 52%, and at the 
24 hours. same hour on the 13th 
#4, hours, an inch. 
it was 60° — 
TweE quantity of rain fatlen since our last Report, has been considerable ; the number of 
@ays in which it has rained, either in greater or Jess quantities, is equal to 21, and the quane 
tity measured by the rain gauze, is equal to full 5% inches in depth. ‘Thunder and lightning 
have been more frequent than usual for the month of May, they follow, of course, the » © 
sultry weather,-which has been some days experienced) On the 16th thé noise of distant 
thundess was Incessant from noon to four o’clock in the afternoon, and on the 22d in the 
evening, the storm raged for a short time with considerable fury, till a heavy rain seemed to 
@lear the atmosphere. é j 
The wind has been most. frequent in the westerly points, though this is the season 
when we look principally to the east for winds. Vegetation is remarkably forward, and. ©. 
large quantities of grass have been cut for more than a week, but, owing to the heavy rains 
which have continued almost from day to day, there is probably not a single load carried. 
Dry and warm weather is now wanted to complete and accomplish what a favourable spring “ 
has brought forward. As far as our recollection serves)’ this is the most early spring since 
the year 1794,when pease were cried in the strects of London, on the 19th of May, at eighteen 
pence the peck: . / ob 
Highgate, May 24, 1811. Pas a 
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and wanted to complete Sets constantly in demund, Two Snitianes and Sixpence, 
per Copy will be given for any ef those. Numbers which may be broight to No. 7, 
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Pimlico, May 29, 1811. ; Merce re: 
Errata. ‘ ‘her : 
Io page 402, for * the stones in three columns,” read _‘§ in tBese Columns.”—In P- 404, for 
“external characteristics,” read ** extetnal characrers,”meln p. 406, for ‘6 sunitey” read §* siegit.."” 
_ omldem, for ‘soft marble,” sead ‘* soft miarle.” { a: 
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