632 Meteorological Obfervations. 
was fown March 27th. interval one hundred and 
fixty-two days.—6th. 1773, oats cut.—7th. 
1774, oats cut down the 15th. of March, being 
the hundred and feventy-fixth day from the time 
of fowing, which gives a medium for the com- 
mencement of cutting oats in this country to be 
about the 31ft. of Auguft, or the ift. of Sept. and 
for the time of oats being in the ground, before 
it ist fit) for reaping, one hundred and fixty- 
five days.—-Auguft 30th. 1776, barley cut that 
was fown April 27th.—September ift. 1774, 
barley cut that was fown May 1ft. which gives 
a medium for the commencement of the cutting 
-of barley to be in this country about the 22d. 
‘of Auguft, and for the time of its being in 
the ground -before it is fit for reaping, one 
hundred and thirteen days. 
September 5th. 1774. A fharp froft which 
hurt the late grains, and damaged the potatoes. 
‘18th. of ditto, the houfe fwallow departed. 
—25th. the little martin difappeared. — 6th. 
1775, houfe fwallows gone.—23d. fome of 
the little martins gone.—g3oth. 1775, harveft 
moftly finifhed, but in 1773 and 1774, harveft 
not nearly concluded before the end of Odober. 
He ftates, that the harveft 1772 was particularly 
wet; the falls in the three laft months of that 
year being 21,3 inches in depth, and that the 
grain was fo lodged, grown, and rotted, that 
a great. 
