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markably fine warm weather. To the end of the year, 

 grey, mild weather, with but little rain and still less frost 

 (Gilbert White). 



March 26 and 27. So hot that bees swarmed. Ther- 

 mometer, 66 degrees in the shade ; but harsh, severe 

 weather followed (Gilbert White). 



April 10. The rigour of the spring abating, a softer 

 season began to prevail. November 3. Wet and 

 blustering. 4th. Dark and mild and soft; wind S.W. ; 

 thermometer, 58! (G. White). 



1778 Wheat, 42 s. per qr. (Official Returns). 

 Barley, 2os. ; oats, 14^. 6d. (London Mag.). 

 Land worth 35 years' purchase (Townsend). 

 Thames frozen over at Kingston ( Walter Thornbury). 

 To January 13, frost, with a little snow. To 24th, 



rain. To $oth, hard frost. To February 23rd, dark, 

 harsh, foggy weather, with rain. To the end of the 

 month, hard frost with snow. To the end of the first 

 fortnight in March, dark, harsh weather. From the ist 

 to the end of the first fortnight in April, spring weather. 

 To the end of the month, snow and ice. To June nth, 

 cool, with heavy showers. To July 19, hot, sultry, 

 parching weather. To the end of the month, heavy 

 showers. To the end of September, dry, warm weather. 

 To the end of the year, wet, with considerable intervals 

 of sunshine (Gilbert White). 



In December barometer 30-935 in. (Sir George Shuck- 

 bur gh). 



Very hot and fine summer. Excessive heat in the first 

 half of July (Brumham). 



July 23. Very serious damage done in the neighbour- 

 hood of London by lightning (Boyle). 



Wool, i4.r. a tod (Arthur Young). 



1779 One of the most terrible hurricanes of wind finished 

 the old and ushered in the new year, doing an immense 

 amount of damage in London; also at Dover, Deal, 



