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NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
Novemner. 
Freesing Month. 
Now from the north 
Of Norumbega, and the Samfeid fhore, 
Burfting their brazen dungeons, arm’d with ice, 
And fnow, and hail, and ftarmy guft, and flaw, 
Boreas, and Cecias, and Argeltes loud, 
And Thrafcias rend the woods, the feas up-turn. 
ey the months of September and Gétober this year, we have not had any continuance ‘of 
the fine autumnal weather, which is ufwal at this feafon; and even during the whole 
month of November the weather has been very variable. On the 7th the wind was eafterly, 
and contiued in the fame quarter till the 15th, when it veered to the fouth-weft. The night 
of the 15th was very cold, and windy: the 17th and 18th were ftormy days, with hail, rain, 
and wind: on the 17th, the wind blowing very ftrong from the fouth-weft, the tides rofe 
higher than I have feen them thefe cwo years. Hitherto we have had but little froft, and 
nofnow. ‘The weather has been, for the moft part, rainy and unpleafant. 
November 8. Leaves of the Sycamore begin to tall. 
10. Leaves of tlie Mulberry turn yellowifh. 
14. Leaves of the Weeping Willow fall. 
15. Leaves of the Mulberry nearly all {tripped by the wind and froft which 
we had in the night of the 15th. The leaves of this tree differing thus from thofe of every 
other tree that E have noticed, are generally all fhed together 1 in the courfe of two or three 
of the firft nights of the tharp froft at the commencement of winter. 
November 18. Some few leaves are ftill left on the elm, fycamore, and oak. 
November 8. A cenfiderable quantity of herrings were this day caught by the fithermen, 
in their Seine nets, along the fhore. The fhoal (or fcool as it is called on thefe coaits), ap-, 
pears to have been brought in by the eafterly winds. About a month ago a few were caught, 
but none fince, till this evening. They were caught every evening afterwards, till the 17th, 
when the ftormy weather compelled the remainder of the fhoal to retire into the deep waters, 
at a diftance from the fhores. 
With the eafterly wind, of the 7th and 8th, the flight of woodcocks that arrived, was 
greater than ufual; but as foon as the wind changed to fouth-weft, the principal part of therm 
went away. 
November 10. The Ivy is now in full flower. I obferve alfo here and there in the hedges, 
@ ftraggling flower of the Woodbine itil! left, In the gardens, the winter flowering Hellebores 
ave beginning to fhew their flower buds, 
Moles are caught in great abundance. 
November 16. ‘i'wo martins were (gen this day; but I have not heard that any birds of the 
Swallow tribe have been obferved fince. In the evening, which was mild, [ faw feveral bats 
flitting about, and playing near the church, 
November 18. At low w: iter of the {pring tides, Sand-eels or Wreckle, as they are here 
called, (ammodytes tubianus of Linneus,) are {till found under the fand. Before the enfuing 
Spring’ tides, at the full woon, they will, no donot, have all jeft the thores. 
November 26 Thofe beautiful and excellent birds, the Guiden Plovers, are found in greater 
numbers than ufual about the borders of the New Forelt. 
November 30. The gulls leave the fea-thore, and frequent the meadows and corn-fields. 
Several of the fummer and autumnal field fowersare yet lelt ; and will probably continue. 
tll the firt fevere night, when they will-all die together. 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE early fown Wheats, which were every where in almoft an unexampled ftate of for- 
wardnels and Juxuriance, have fuffercd a feafonable check, by the fetting in of the 
fharp frofts, and will, -probably, be much benefited thereby, as the flight fall of fnow, which 
took place at the fame time, will protect them from any material injury, which might other- 
wife, have been the cafe. And thofe put in at a later period, are by no means in a ftate of 
growth to fuftain any mifchief in this way.—In England and Wales, Wheat averages per 
quarter, 90s. 2d 3 Barley, 45s.; and Oats, 53s. 7d. 
The unufual milduefs of the feafou, till within thefe few days, has had much effeé in pre- 
venting the gonfumption of the ftock of winter cattle food, fo that the farmer was perhaps 
feldom better proyided at this time for the fupport of his five fteck. And, in addition to this, 
the crops of turnips and other winter green food, were feldom better, or more abundant. 
The bufinefs of ftall- feeding has, this year, gone on remarkably well in ae places, from 
the weather being fo mild and open till within thefe few days. 
The fame caufe has likewile been equally favourable to the performance of all the differ- 
ent operations ef hufbandry, which require to be executed at this feafon—J» Smithteld’ 
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