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not appear to have been one season with any general or 

 marked deficiency (Tooke). 



1731 Wheat, $2S. io</. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 295. 2d. per qr. (Tovey). 



January 20. Very deep snow ; wheat in January, 26s. 

 to 28s. per qr. ; barley, 20*. to 22^. per qr. {Thackeray). 



Rainfall at Plymouth, 17-266 in. (Gilbert White). 



January 4 to 5. Great frost and snow. 25th. Snow 

 so deep in some places that the roads were hardly pass- 

 able. 3oth. Cold as great as December 30, 1708 

 (Derham). 



October 30. Whirlwind at Cerne Abbas, terrible at 

 12.45 a.m., only 200 yards wide, trees uprooted, houses 

 unroofed, only lasted two minutes {Dorby). 



November 29* A little snow fell in the night (G. 

 White).- 



1732 Wheat, 265. M. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 23*. %d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Barley, 25. per bushel in the West of England (Tooke). 



May i. A great fall of snow at Edinburgh. 2nd. At 

 Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Ice so strong at Edinburgh as to bear 

 man and horse ; lambs were killed by the excessive cold 

 (Lowe). 



May 7. Great flood at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Lowe). 



September 16. The tide of the river Thames flowed 

 for the space of eight hours instead of four, while it ebbed 

 for five instead of eight {Boyle). 



1733 Wheat, 28$. 4^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 2$s. 2d. per qr. {Tovey). 



March i. Greatest flood in North of England ever 

 remembered {Boyle). 



May evenings and mornings very cold, and the middle 

 of the day violently hot; north-east winds continually, 

 and such want of rain that the ground is as hard as iron 

 {Duchess of Queensberry). 



June 23, 24, 25, very hot. 26th and 27th. Great 

 thunderstorms. 



