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Very severe frost in January. Cold and wet season 

 throughout (Gilbert White}. 



September. Floods, in consequence of sudden rise of 

 springs in Wiltshire (Hoare). 



November 22. Remarkable fall of the barometer all 

 over the kingdom. At Selborne no wind, and not much 

 rain, only vast swagging rock-like clouds in the distance 

 (Gilbert White). 



Height of flood in the Thames, at high-water mark at 

 Clifton Hampden, 7 feet 7 Jin. (J. C. C. in Agr. Gazette). 



The year began with a very severe frost, which aggra- 

 vated the calamity of the lower classes of the people, 

 who were already much distressed from the exorbitant 

 price of food (Littleton). 



The year begins with a fortnight's frost and snow. 

 Rainy during February. Cold and wet spring. Wet 

 season from the beginning of June to the end of harvest. 

 Latter end of September, foggy without rain. All 

 October and the first part of November rainy ; thence to 

 the end of the year alternate rains and frosts (Gilbert 

 White). 



Rather a backward year (G. White). 

 1769 Wheat, 40^. id. per qr. (Tovey). 



Wet harvest. Mild wet winter ( ). 



Sheep on the Downs are very ragged this winter, and 

 their coats much torn (Gilbert White). 



Land extremely dry at Midsummer, and the drought 

 continued till 5th July (Winter). 



A comet (Townsend). 



Warm winter (Penny Magazine). 



January and February, frosty and rainy, with gleams ot 

 fine weather in the intervals. To the middle of March, 

 wind and rain ; to the end of March, dry and windy. 

 To the middle of April, stormy. To the end of June, 

 fine weather with rain. To the beginning of August, 

 warm dry weather. To the end of September, rainy, with 



