and trees, by the fall of which several persons were killed. 

 March 26. An extraordinary storm. June n. After 

 a long drought we had a refreshing shower. 25th. 

 The heat has been so great almost all this month that I 

 do not remember to have felt much greater in Italy, and 

 this after a winter the wettest though not the coldest that 

 I remember for fifty years last past. July 23. Season- 

 able showers after a continuance of excessive drought and 

 heat. October 21. After an unusual warm and pleas- 

 ant season we were surprised with a very sharp frost. 

 November 25. There happened this week so thick a 

 mist and fog that people lost their way in the streets, it 

 being so intense that no light of candles or torches 

 yielded any (or but very little) direction. I was in it 

 and in danger. It began about 4 p.m., and was quite 

 gone by 8, without any wind to disperse it. A gentle, 

 calm day, temperate weather all this season of the year, 

 but now came sharp, hard frost and mist, but calm. 

 December 3. Calm bright and warm as in the middle of 

 April (Evelyn). 



After barley seedtime there was for about a month a 

 very dry time. A mighty year for aftermass grass. 

 About midsummer a mighty cold and wet day and night 

 falling after shearing many sheep died. On good 

 pastures calves do not pay more than 25. per week, till 

 five or six weeks old for the batcher (Lisle). 



A dry summer ( Winchcomb Parish Register). 



A comet (Townsend). 



Deficient harvest (Farmers' Almanack}. 



Severe winter (Penny Magazine}. 



Rainfall at Upminster, 15-1 in. (Derhani). 



Severe frost. The price of wheat rose to 7 r s. per qr. 



Mock suns, February 26, at Canterbury, and April 7 

 (Gray). 



1700 Wheat, 40^. per qr. of nine bushels at Windsor 

 (Smith}. 



