Meteorological Obfervations. 629 
—— 21. Some of the berries'on the Elder 
(Sambucus Ebulus) beginning to colour. The 
crops all cut down except late fields and patches. 
The Houfe Swallow (Hirundo ruftica) beginning 
to depart. 
23d. The fwallows gone. 
goth. The crops all got in except late 
fields, &c. : 
O&, 1, The leaves beginning to fall from 
fome of the afh-trees and limes. The berries 
the elder and bramble in the midft of ripening, 
but have little flavour. Some grain on a very 
late foil only cutting, at five miles diftance 
from this place. 
Nov. 1ft. That late crop now got in, and. 
thus concluding one of the fineft harvefts ever 
known in this country, the late grain being 
equally well ripened and got into the barns 
with the moft early, and over the whole coun- 
try a heavy crop.—The firft fnow’ was vifi- 
ble on the tops of the mountains yefterday ; 
and the firft froft, of any confequence, was 
noticed this morning. 
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1oth. Moft of the potatoe ground now 
fown with wheat, there being little more wheat 
except on fields where potatoes were growing 
fown in the country. — Many wild geefe (Anas 
Anfer ), field-fares (Turdus pilaris ), wood- 
cocks 
