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15. Tremendous thunderstorm in London. December 

 4. A comet visible {Boyle). 



1823 Wheat, 53*. 4^. per qr. (Official Returns) ; barley, 

 3IJ-. 6d. ; oats, 22s. nd. per qr. 



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

 (Driver). Lincoln wool, is. o\d. per Ib. 



Off-going ewes made 22*. 6d. each (/ Phillips). 



Began reaping August i4th; finished harvest Septem- 

 ber 1 9th (T. Owen). 



Began reaping August i6th; finished harvest Septem- 

 ber 2oth (Cox). 



Cold winter. Wet and cold season. Scarcity (Driver). 



Forty-seven days' rain from June 2Qth to August i5th. 

 Great numbers of sheep rotten this autumn (Cox). 



November i. Very tempestuous weather wind, snow, 

 and rain. Greatest flood ever remembered in Salisbury 

 (Eastori). 



Deficient harvest. Rain fell every day in July except 

 one (Times). 



A heavy flood 3oth and 3ist October in consequence 

 of continued storms of rain and a considerable fall of 

 snow. In Fisherton the waters were higher than they 

 had ever before been known to rise within memory 

 (Hatcher). 



Cold, wet summer (Times). 

 1824 Wheat, 635. iid. per qr. (Official Returns). 



Barley, $6s. ^d. ; oats, 24^. lod. per qr. 



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

 (Driver). 



Lincoln wool, i2\d. 



Off-going ewes made 285. each (/". Phillips). 



Average crops (Driver). 



Began reaping August i2th; finished harvest Septem- 

 ber 29 th (T. Owen). 



Began reaping August i6th; finished harvest September 

 3oth (Cox). 



