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Some fields of wheat were partly lodged in the neighbourhood in the 

 middle of the month, by the heavy showers of rain and hail ; but they re- 

 covered their standing during the two or three following fine sunny days. 

 The wheat harvest is becoming general here, and there will certainly be a 

 good average crop. The barley is much improved by the rains, and pro- 

 mises favourably, and beyond all expectation at the beginning of the month. 

 Notwithstanding the continually wet weather, and the comparatively low 

 temperature of the atmosphere, the corn and fruits, by means of interven- 

 ing hot sunshine, have grown rapidly, and with the exception of wall-fruit, 

 will yield abundant crops ; so that a backward spring like the last, is not 

 always ultimately disadvantageous to agriculturists. In the evening of the 

 3rd instant a very heavy gale passed over, and did much damage among the 

 fruit-trees; but it was not felt so injurious a few miles distant. On the 

 5th, 14th, I6th, and 24th, distant thunder was heard here, and it lightened 

 throughout the night of the 24th. 



In the afternoon of the 14th two parhelia appeared for a short time, the 

 one on the south side of the sun was observed to form and disappear. The 

 nights of the 19th and 2Gth were cold, with N.W. and N.E. winds; and 

 slight hoar frosts were observed in the grass fields at sunrise on the fol- 

 lowing mornings. 



The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come within our 

 observations this month, are two parhelia, three solar halos, seven rainbows, 

 thunder on four days, and lightning on one; and ten gales of wind, or 

 days on which they have prevailed ; namely, one from the North-east, one 

 from the South-east, two from the South, and six from the South-west. 



REMARKS. 



London. — July 1. Stormy and wet. 2. Fine, with showers, s. Stormy 

 and wet: boisterous gale at night. 4. Fine morning: stormy and wet. 

 S. Cloudy, with heavy showers. 6. Very fine. 7. Stormy and wet. 8. Very 

 fine. 9. Cloudy: fine afternoon. 10. Very fine: cloudy, with rain at night. 

 11. Rainy. 12. Cloudy, with heavy showers. 1.^. Drizzly: cloudy, with 

 some thunder in the evening. 14. Rainy. 15, 16. Very fine. 17. Stormy 

 and wet. 1 8. Stormy rain, with thunder and heavy shower of hail at 3 p.m. 

 19 — 23. Very fine. 24. Very fine : cloudy and sultry afternoon. 25. A vio- 

 lent thunder-storm at 2 a.m., accompanied with much rain and hail. It 

 continued only for about an hour, in the course of which not less than an 

 inch of rain fell: cloudy. 26. Cold and cloudy. 27, 28. Very fine. 29.Wet 

 morning: showery. 30. Very fine: violent thunder-storm at 4 f.ji. 31. Fine. 



Penzance. — July 1. Rain. 2. Fair : showers. 3. Rain : stormy. 4 — C. 

 Fair: showers. 7. Rain : fair. 8. Fair. 9. Fair; ashower. 10, 1 1. Rain: 

 fair. 12, 13. Showers. 14, IS.Fair. 16. Clear. 17. Rain. 18. Fair: 

 showers. 19. Showers: fair. 20, 21. Clear. 22. Misty: fair. 23. Clear. 

 24. Fair: misty. 25. Fair. 2G. Showers: fair. 27. Clear: a shower. 

 28. Heavy rain. 29. Clear: heavy showers. 30. Shower: clear. 31. Clear. 



lioslou. — July 1. Cloudy: rain a. At. 2. Fine. 3. Fine : rain and rainbow 

 P.M. 4. Cloudy and stormy. 5. Cloudy. C. Fine. 7. Cloudy : rain a.m. 

 an<l r.M. 8 — 10. Fine. 11. Cloudy. 12. Fine: rain early a.m. : rain p»ji. 

 with thunder and lightning.. 13. Fine: rain 1'..m. 14. Cloudy : rain a.m. 

 and P.M. 15. Cloudy. 16. Fine : rain at nigiit. 17. Fine : rain a.m. and 

 P.M. 18. Cloudy : rain p..\i. 19 — 24. Fine. 25. Cloudy : rain, with thun- 

 der, lightning, and wind, early a.,m. At Sibsey and Hrotliertoft, a small 

 distance from this [)lace, this storm was attended with large hailstones, 

 which did great ilaniagc to the standing corn, gardens, windows, &c. 

 26. Cloudy. 27. Fine. 28. Misty. 29. Uain : thunder and lightning p.m. 

 30. Cloudy : rain a.m. 31. Cloudy. 



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