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Rainfall at Plymouth, 20-908 m., (Gilbert White}. 



At Lyndon, 1 6* i in. January, 0*4 in. February, 0*4 in. 

 June, 0-4 in. September, o-8in. July, 5*2 in. October, 

 3-1 in. (Barker). 



February 3. Great gale. April i. N.E. gale. 2yth. 

 A gale. July 15. Hail fell at Enfield as big as nutmegs, 

 and laid the corn for several miles (Lowe). 



January 18, O.S. We have now a wonderful fine sea- 

 son, that makes our spring flowers come forth (Collinson). 



1744 Wheat, 24^. io*/. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 22s. \d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Severe winter, (Penny Magazine). 



Seine entirely frozen over ( ). 



A comet (Townsend). 



February 5. Shocks of earthquake in Merionethshire 

 (Boyle}. 



Rainfall at Lyndon, 227 in. July, o'8 in. August, 

 1*0 in. June, 3*5 in. September, 3*3 in. October, 3-1 in. 

 (Barker). 



October. The constant heavy rain has occasioned 

 floods in divers places, and sheep and cattle have been 

 drowned. Thunderstorms on June 4, August 13 and 

 14, very violent (Lowe). 



Snow on April 2nd. Therm., on 6th, 34; 2ist, 75. 

 2oth, first warm day (Lowe). 



Gales, February iQth, 2oth. N.E., 24th, at Brighton. 

 25th. 



Rainfall in London, in April, 5 '2 in. (Lowe). 



Malt duty amounted to .697,000 iSs. (Boyle). 



1745 Wheat, 2 js. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 24.?. 5^. perqr. (Tovey). 



Very wet harvest ; all the corn grown in the ear (Lisle). 

 Many rotten sheep. Wool, 15*. 6d. per tod (Ellis). 

 November 18 to 20. Gales (Lowe). 

 From this time to 1765, great distemper in horned 

 cattle, which occasioned the consigning to the plough 



