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THE CLIMATE OF PRINCE GEOEGE S COUNTY 



July: 



August : 

 September : 



October : 

 1757 — January : 



February 

 March : 

 April : 

 May : 

 June : 



July : 

 August : 

 September : 

 October : 

 November : 



December : 



Seasonable weather, and the most plentiful appearance of corn and 

 tobacco I ever saw. The wheat was got in last month. It is 

 supposed there will be the most of any year since the settlement 

 of the country. 



Very dry. 



This is the hottest and driest summer ever known in Maryland. 

 There are great crops of corn and tobacco made, but, through the 

 extreme dryness of the weather, the latter crops of neither will 

 come to perfection. Many springs are dried up that were ever 

 current before. 



The weather seasonable. 



Many sudden alterations as to heat and cold have been in this 

 month, but the most remarkable I have ever observed was th(! 

 last day of this month, when the mercury was up to 65°, and the 

 next day, February 1, when it was down to 28°, about the same 

 hour in the day. 



It rained almost every day this month. 



A vast deal of rain fell this month. 



The wettest and coldest April within man's memory. 



Seasonable and healthy. 



An uncommon wet month. The hard rains beat off the flour, or 

 farina fccitndanf:, of the wheat, so that very little of that grain 

 was made this year. 



Much rain. 



Much rain and thick foggy weather. 



Very wet. 



Very wet. 



On the 10th of this month there was as severe a gust of thunder 

 and lightning as is common in July or August. Several horses, 

 cattle, etc., were killed in different" parts. There were the most 

 luminous coruscations I ever saw, the whole hemisphere, as it 

 were, in a blaze. 



Verj' variable weather. Many high winds and much rain. 



