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aware how much ten days dripping wea- 

 ther will influence the growth of grass or 

 corn after a severe dry season. This pre- 

 sent summer, 1776, yielded a remarkable 

 instance; for till the 30th of May the 

 fields were burnt up and naked, and the 

 barley not half out of the ground ; but 

 now, June 10, there is an agreeable pro- 

 spect of plenty. WHITE. 



AURORA BOREALIS 



November 1, 1787. The N. aurora 

 made a particular appearance, forming it- 

 self into a broad, red, fiery belt, which 

 extended from E. to W. across the welkin : 

 but the moon rising at about ten o'clock, 

 in unclouded majesty, in the E. put an 

 end to this grand, but awful meteorous 

 phenomenon. WHITE. 



BLACK SPRING, 1771. 

 Dr. Johnson says, that " in 1771 the 

 season was so severe in the island of Sky, 



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