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her 25. Hitherto mild, dark, misty weather. Now snow 

 and frost (Evelyn). 



Cold summer (Penny Magazine). 



Deficient harvest (Farmers' Almanack). 



Rainfall in London from August 12 to August 12, 

 1696, 29 in. (Lowe). 



Many of the Scotch are driven into Ireland by the 

 excessive price of corn (Tooke). 

 1696 Wheat, 7 is. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 6$s. id. per qr. (Tovey). 



February 2. An extraordinary wet season, though 

 temperate as to cold. March i. Wind north and east 

 all this week. Great frost and cold through March. 

 June 21. An exceeding rainy, cold, unseasonable sum- 

 mer, yet the city was very healthy. July 7. A northern 

 wind altering the weather with a continual and im- 

 petuous rain of three days and nights, changed it into, 

 perfect winter. i2th. Very unseasonable and uncertain 

 weather. August 3. Reasonable good harvest weather. 

 September. Fine seasonable weather, and a great har- 

 vest after a cold wet summer. Scarcity in Scotland. 

 October 24. Unseasonable stormy weather and an ill seed 

 time. November 8. The first frost began fiercely, but 

 lasted not long. i5th to 23rd. Very stormy weather, 

 rain, and inundations. December 13. Continuance of 

 extreme frost and snow (Evelyn). 



Wet wheat harvest (Lisle). 



Deficient harvest (Farmers' Almanack). 



January 26. Intense frost. In London temperature 

 9 below zero (Lowe). 



Crops bad and dear this year (Lowe). 



February 3. The great pier demolished and much 

 damage done at the Isle of Portland, owing to excessive 

 rain (Sir W. Southwell). 



The mean rate for wheat for the next fifty years was 

 5-$-. \d. per bushel (L. M.). 



