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the contrary, it may be, and I believe is of advan- 

 tage to it ; for nothing fertilizes more than fro ft and 

 fnow, and as all the land defigned for the next year's 

 crop of turnips is expofed to the weather the 

 whole of the winter, it being the cuftom to plough 

 up the Hubble defigned for turnips fooner than in 

 many other counties ; it may perhaps be one reafon 

 cf the greater certainty in the culture of this inefti- 

 mable root. — In fummer, the fhowers are rather 

 more frequent than in the midland counties — florms 

 and tempefts, fuch as thunder and lightning, are fre- 

 quent, and as violent as in other parts of the king- 

 dom, but feldom laft fo long as in hilly diftri&s, but 

 in general pafs in a quick direction from the fouth 

 and weft, towards the fea, which ftrongly attra&s 

 them ; and I have remarked that it is but feldom that 

 fhefe fiorms come from the fea. 



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