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March 8. The year opened with most unseasonable 

 weather, the heat being beyond what was ever known in 

 any other country. 



February 8. The barristers at Westminster were so 

 alarmed that they imagined the hall was falling. March 

 8. At 5 a.m. an earthquake shook all London (Hone}. 



Excessively hot spring and summer. Therm., in July, 

 at least 96 in the shade on several days (Brumhani). 



February 23. Aurora borealis seen at Cork (Boyle}. 



May i. Three suns appeared at once at Brecon 

 (Boyle). 



July 12. Excessive heat, so that vast numbers of fish 

 perished. 



August 23. Violent shock of an earthquake in Notting- 

 hamshire (Boyle). 



February 10. S.W. gale, much damage done and by 

 floods. 20th. Very warm. 25th. A flood. June 30. 

 Thunderstorm, 5-3 in. of rain fell in two hours. July 8 

 to 23. Most excessive heat ever known. Several horses 

 dropped down dead (Arderon). 



Except a few very hot days, the summer exceedingly 

 cold and rainy, scarcely a day without rain (Huxhairi). 



Most violent rain ever known at Gloucester, Sep- 

 tember 2. 



Rainfall at Lyndon, i6'4 in. ; at Norwich, 20-2 in. 

 (Barker). 



Aurora borealis in January, from 14 to 23, and Febru- 

 ary 15, 23, 28, March 9, August 23 (Lowe). 



Great thunderstorms. 



Very wet October, November, and December. 



Gales, November 30, and December 3 (Lowe). 



From 1741 to 1751 we had ten as good years as ever 

 were known in succession (A. Smith"). 

 1751 Wheat, 38^. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 345-. 2d. per qr. (Tovey). 



February 8. Aurora borealis. 



