short intervals of fine weather. To the latter end of 

 October, frosty mornings with fine days. The next fort- 

 night rainy, thence to the end of November, dry and 

 frosty. December, windy, with rain and intervals of frost, 

 and the first fortnight very foggy (Gilbert White). 



Mr. Barker, who has measured the rain more than 

 thirty years, says that more has fallen this year than in 

 any he ever attended to; though from July, 1753, to 

 January, 1754, more fell than in any seven months this 

 year (G. White). 

 1770 Wheat, 43 s. 6d. per qr. (Tovey). 



A constant succession of frost, snow, hail, and tempest 

 in April. Fine harvest. Incessant rain in autumn. 

 Great deal of rain this year, 7^ inches in three weeks, in 

 December (Gilbert White). 



A comet (Townsend). 



Height of flood in the Thames, at Clifton Hampden, 

 7 ft. 5 in. (J. C. C. in Agr. Gazette). 



Frost for the first fortnight; during the i4th and i5th 

 all the snow melted. To, the end of February, mild hazy 

 weather. The whole of March frosty, with bright 

 weather. April, cloudy, with rain and snow. May began 

 with summer showers, and ended with dark cold rains. 

 June, rainy, chequered with gleams of sunshine. The 

 first fortnight in July, dark and sultry ; the latter part of 

 the month, heavy rain. August, September, and October, 

 for the first fortnight, in general fine weather, though with 

 frequent interruptions of rain, from the middle of October 

 to the end of the year almost incessant rains (G. White). 



The choicest pieces of beef, I am assured, now sell in 

 Warminster market for 2\d. per lb., and the inferior sort 

 at i\d., whilst some other markets are kept up to the 

 extravagant price of four pence (Equity in Salisbury 

 Journal^ January ist, 1770). 



Trees retained an uncommon verdure late into Novem- 

 ber. A late spring ; cool and moist summer (G. White). 



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