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and loKgifolia, are now in flower. In the leaves of great numbers of thefe plants that I ha^MI|p^ 

 examined this year, I have obfcrved as ufu.il fmall flies and other infefts entangled by the glu- • 

 tinous points of the hairs. During the heat of the day, thefe elofe round and retain fuch in- 

 fedts as arc unfortunate enough to alight upon them. 



Towards the end of July I was informed of a perfon, whofe hands were fo much inflamed 

 and bliftered bv reaping in a field abounding with the mathen or ftinking camomile, anthcKlt 

 cctula, that he was obliged to apply for mcrlical afliltance. The mathen, which is often in 

 great quanlity in cornfields, has tliis pernicious efieft with a few perfons, whilft it is not in the 

 leaft injurious to others. 



The Luncaihirc afphodel, antherUum offtfragum, and the marflj St. John's wort, Hypericum 

 e'odes, were both in flower on the Firft ot Auguil. 



Young partridges were obferveJ on wing about the middle of July ; and before the end of 

 the month fome of them had attained confiderable ftrength. 



Mackrcl h;ive been caught in abundance during the greater part of the month. Several per- 

 fons have complained of iiaving been unwell in cunfe.jucnce of eating them, and have be- 

 lieved that tbcir illnefs arofe from fome -poifonous or unwholefome (quality in the fi/h. There 

 feems, however, little doubt, but that it has been brouglit on merely by their eating an unu- 

 fual quantity of fo rich a food. 



Daring many fuccelTive days towards the end of July no mackrcl whatfocver were taken. 

 This the filhcrmen attributed to the ftate of the fea, which exiialed a fomewhat fetid and uu- 

 pleafant fmell. They affert that they never catch mackrel luhen the J'cii /links. 



The humming-bird h.iwk mot^i, fphiiix jlel'ata>u:n, is now feen every fine day, hoverinj 

 about in the gardens, and extratting, with its long and fpiral tongue, the neflar of the flowers. 

 In this aft it never alights, but (like the humming-bird, from whence its name is derived], 

 poifes itfelf over them by its rapidly-vibrating \vini«s. It is one of the raofl: beautiful ami 

 intereiling of all infers. 1 have now by me a larva or caterpillar which is (Auguil 16) juit 

 beginning to fpin its cafe in my window. 



On the 10th of Auguft I caught a female of the large green grafshopper, gryllus '^errac't- 

 •vorui, whilit in the att of depoGting its eggs on a piece of barren ground, near the road fide. 

 Hompplre. 



N. B. — Erratum in the lad month's Report, for " <log ■a?/7i brijr," read " do^-rtje, or ivi'.i 

 iriiir,^' 



METEOllOLOGICAL REPOllT. 



Oljer-calionron the State of t/^e Wcatln r, from the ■Ulh of Jul;/ to the 2Uh cf 

 Augiif, 1H06,' inclujivt, Tao'xUiks N.\\. of St. Fuul's. 

 Baromctir. \ Thermometer. 



Higheft 30.2.5. Auguft 1(3. Wind W. 

 Loweit 29.60. Aug. 1 & 2. Wind S. W. 



SJ4 hours. \ an inch 



\Thi^ 



T 



/- ..n.^ A^ I. \This change took 

 Greateit / 47 hun- 1 , , , , 



. . . f , , , r J place between the 

 variation in > dredths 



18th and I'Jth In- 



ftant. 



HieheiT: Ut^. Auguft 8 & 9- Wind S. W. 

 Loweft .l-6='. Auguft 15. Wind N. W. 



This fmall variatirn 

 Createft i ^occurred between the 



variation in ).- 7°. <: middle of the 1,3th, 

 24 hours. \ J and the fame hour oi^ 



the 14th, Inftant. 



The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft Report is equal to 3.4C inches In depth. 



The average temperature of tlie prefent month is nearly e4ual to 63°. We have bad 

 many thunder ftorms in the covirfe of the month ; that on the 14th was accompanied with a 

 heavy fall of large hail ftones. Early on Tucfday evening the 19th, the lightning was very 

 vivid, and the flaihes fuccecded eacli other with gre.it rapidity: by nine or ten o'clock the 

 eleftrical aura was very fenfibly perceived by the noftrils, the lightning continued svith inter- 

 vals till a late' hour in the mormngj and between one and two o'clock the thunder was tre- 

 mendous, and very neir. On Wednefdjy, nbout ten o'clock, the atmofphtrc was uncom- 

 monly heavy, and a darknefs came over the metropolis and its nei^hbourhooil, fuch as lias been 

 urely feen in the ajonth of Auguft. It continued for feveral minutes ; the lightning became^ 

 again very vivid, and the flaftics rapidly fuccecded each nther, accompanied with loud peals of 

 thunder. A confid-rable fall of rain cleared the air, and we have had but few Ihowers fince. 



Notwithftanding thefe rains, the wheat harveft lias, upon the whole, been very favourable, 

 and the crops are generally abuiid.int. The barley in Norfolk futfcved much from the drynefs 

 of the fpring, and early part of the fummtr ; the late rains have however produced very bene- 

 "ficial cffedls on that grain. The hops look uncommonly well, and promife un abundant crop. 



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