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in the height o£ hay time, a good deal of it was well made ; 

 but fome of the firil: cut, and the latter was caught in the wet ; 

 for after the 1 9th it was ihowery or wet, and the 30th and 

 31ft were, all over Leicefterfhire, Rutland, and part of Lin- 

 colnfhire, the greateft flood fince July 1736 ; and it continued 

 wet and cool all AugufI:, fo that the fummer was in general 

 cold, wet, and backward, yet with fome very fine fits in it. 

 The harveft began but indifferently ; but being late this year, 

 and the weather wet, not much was carried before September, 

 when, in about three weeks calm, hot, and dry weather, yet 

 with vaft dews, moft of the white corn was well got in this 

 country ; but fome of the peafe, and, where it was earlier and 

 later, fome of the white corn was carried damp, for the end 

 of September was again wet. 



The autumn was various ; a dry and fine 06lober, toward the 

 end of it iharp frofty mornings ; a {howery November, with a 

 fharp froft in the middle, yet often pleafant ; and after Decem- 

 ber 5th, a confiderable fnow (in fome countries it was very 

 great) and a feverer frofl than is ufual before Chriftmas lafted 

 tijll into January, 



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