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Observations on the Summer of 1816. 



Read Feb. 181; 



Nmtark Mv. 29, 1816. 



Sir, 



1 have had the honour of receiving the circular 

 resolve of the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agri- 

 culture, passed October 30, 1816, which you were good 

 enough to direct to me. 



1 agree with the Society so entirely in opinion, that I 

 collected the phenomena oi solar spots, and the facts con- 

 cerning Newfoundland ice, and recorded them in the 3d 

 No. of the 28th volume of the Medical Repository, p. 

 301—307. 



The season, though unusually cool, was nevertheless 

 warm enough to ripen strawberries, raspberries, currants, 

 cherries, gooseberries, pears, plums, and apples. They were 

 generally very fine. The ox-heart cherries in particular, 

 were unusually large and abundant. This autumn ap- 

 ples are, fairer, cheaper, and more plentiful, than they have 

 been for many years. Peaches were poor, owing to the 

 distemper of the trees of several years standing. 



It is certain that the fruit has been damaged less by in- 

 sects than is usual. An entomologist complained to me, 

 a kw weeks ago, that it had been a most unfortunate sea- 

 son for the collection of insects. That kind of game, he 

 said, was so rare, that he had added but little to his mu- 

 seum. 



