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Dec. 25. Thermometer 16 below zero in London 

 (Hayter). 



Intense frost in December (Boyle). 



A famine year (Rogers). 



Excessively severe winter, 1796-7 (Brumhani). 



Crops nearly one half deficient (Letters of a Yorkshire 

 Gentleman). 



A severe frost set in in December, and the thermometer 

 in many places on the 24th was below zero. In some 

 places it was 16, which is for this country the greatest 

 cold on record (Glaisher). 



The warmest January on record (Brumhani). 



A plentiful season. 



1797 Wheat, 53*. 9^. per qr. (Official Returns). 

 Barley, 27$. 2d. ; oats, 16^. $d. per qr. 

 Season less unfavourable (Driver). 



Wool, i&/. ; beef and mutton, 6\d. cheese, $\d. per Ib. 



Great storms end of July, beginning of August, and in 

 September, which did great damage all over Great Britain 

 (Fenny Magazine*). 



Heat unusually great part of summer. Thermometer 

 in July from 89 to 91 about i6th and 27th. A very 

 wet summer and year from August (Brumhani). 



Backward spring. Summer variable and rather cold, 

 the harvest wet and stormy, and the general reports of the 

 crops unfavourable both as to quality and quantity (Tooke). 



1798 W r heat, 51$. io</. perqr. (Official Returns). 

 Barley, 29$. ; oats, 19^. 5^. per qr. 



Season less unfavourable. Wool, i8f</. ; beef and 

 mutton, $\d. ; cheese, $\d. per Ib. (Driver). 



September 12. Tremendous storm as any remembered 

 by oldest man living (Gentleman's Magazine). 



Lincoln wool, i\d. per Ib. (Driver). 



A very fine hot summer (Brumhani). 



Moderately abundant season, early harvest, and the 

 crops well got in (Tooke). 



