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the floods caused by which did great damage (Annual 

 Register). 



March 22. Violent hailstorm doing great damage in 

 London. June 20. Hailstones as big as nutmegs fell 

 in Yorkshire. Sept. 25. Great gale in London which 

 did considerable damage. November 22. One of the 

 Needles rocks destroyed by wind (Boyle). 

 1773 Wheat, $is. per qr. (Official Returns). 



Some frost to middle of February. Warm, showery 

 spring. Fine harvest. Very wet autumn. Wheat yields 

 bad. Corn scarce and dear, from a succession of wet 

 seasons the last ten or eleven years. Springs higher than 

 they have been since 1764 (G. White). 



The first week in January, frost ; thence to the end of 

 the month dark, rainy weather. The first fortnight in 

 February, hard frost. To the end of the first week in 

 March, misty, showery weather ; bright spring days to the 

 close of the month. Frequent showers to the latter end 

 of April. To the end of June, warm showers, with 

 intervals of sunshine. To the end of August, dry 

 weather, with a few days of rain. To the end of the 

 ;first fortnight in November, rainy. The next four weeks 

 i frost ; and thence to the end of the year, rainy (Gilbert 

 White). 



Exportation of wheat allowed when under 44.?., with a 

 'bounty of $s. per qr. ; above 44^. prohibited. Importa- 

 tion allowed when at or above 48^., on a duty of six- 

 pence. 



Very wet autumn and winter. Wheat, in February, 

 1774, by the continual, late, sudden vicissitudes from 

 fierce frost to pouring rain, looks poorly, and the turnips 

 rot very fast. Such a run of wet seasons as we have had 

 the last ten or eleven years would have produced a famine 

 a century or two ago (G. White). 



February 16. Great fall of snow in Flintshire, burying 

 cottages, men and cattle. April 15. Shocks of earth- 



