shortly after a report as loud as a cannon shook the 

 windows, succeeded by about thirty others at the interval 

 of a minute. It broke over the sea near the coast of 

 Brittany at an altitude of about thirty miles {Hone). 



1720 Wheat, 371. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 32.?. lod. per qr. (Tovey). 



Wet and cold spring and summer. So wet through 

 March, April, and May that the pastures did not afford a 

 bite for cattle till middle of May. About a month before 

 haymaking there fell so much rain that the water mead- 

 ows were overflowed and very much stranded, so that the 

 hay was given to them who would cut it and carry it off 

 (Lisle). 



Cheese, 24^. per cwt. Summer wet till July i8th. A 

 great burden of hay and grass (Lisle). 



1721 Wheat, 37^. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 335. 4^. per qr. (Tovey). 



Aurora borealis, January 6, February 6, September i r, 

 October 21. 



Mock suns February 22, August 30, October 22, 23, 

 26 (Lowe). 



March 26. Much rain and hail with thunder and 

 lightning. 



June 2oth and up to 26th, hot weather, when I 

 finished haymaking. 



The first week in December was frosty. i3th. Rain. 



Hired a cook maid at ye wages of 4 (Diary of Thomas 

 Smith, Esq.). 

 1722 Wheat, 365-. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 32.5-. per qr. (Tovey). 



Very mild December (Lowe). 



Rainfall in May, 3-5 in. July, 4*3 in. October, o'6 in. 

 (Horsley). 



Mock suns March 22, 23, 26. Aurora borealis Feb- 

 ruary 19, March 15. 



January 1 2. Frosty. Wet season up to April. Floods 

 beginning of June. 



