LETTER LXI. 



To the same. 



INGE the weather of a district is undoubtedly 

 part of its natural history, I shall make no 

 further apology for the four following letters, 

 which will contain many particulars concern- 

 ing some of the great frosts, and a few re- 

 specting some very hot summers, that have 

 distinguished themselves from the rest during 

 the course of my observations. 



As the frost of January 1768 was, for the small time it 

 lasted, the most severe that we had then known for many 

 years, and was remarkably injurious to evergreens, some 

 account of its rigour, and reason of its ravages, may be useful, 

 and not unacceptable to persons that delight in planting and 

 ornamenting ; and may particularly become a work that pro- 

 fesses never to lose sight of utility. 1 



For the last two or three days of the former year there were 

 considerable falls of snow, which lay deep and uniform on the 



1 This is the first overt indication White has given of the deliberate 

 intention to write a book. ED. 



