10 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section in. 



CLIMATE AND WEATHER. 



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AHE extremities of the county, lie from 52 deg, 

 24 m. to 53 deg. 5 m. north latitude, and from 

 about o deg. 6 m. to 1 degree 52 minutes of eaflern 

 longitude; and being open to the German Ocean, 

 north and eaft, and lying on the marfhy parts of 

 Cambridgefhire and Lincolnfhire on the weft — the 

 air is on that account extremely cold in winter, and 

 during the early parts of the fpring, vegetation is 

 generally kept back by fharp eafterly winds, and 

 a vaft quantity of fleet — cattle on this account, often 

 fuffer feverely as well from this inclemency of wea- 

 ther, as from want of a proper fupply of nourifh- 

 ment in the fpring; for when the turnips happen to 

 perifh early, from the frequent change of froft and 

 thaw, the farmer finds himfelf obliged to difpofe of 

 his flock to a very great difadvantage, which he 

 fhould endeavour to guard againft, by keeping a 

 good flock of hay in flore, and by fowing a fufncient 

 quantity of his land, with rye or winter vetches the 

 preceding autumn. In other refpe&s, I do not think 

 the produce of the land the lefs for this feverity, on 



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