AND ROBERT MAKSHAM. 303 



You call in occasionally some young person to he your 

 Amanuensis ? 



There has been no such summer as this, so cold & so dry, I 

 can roundly assert, since the year 17(55. We have bad no 

 rain since the last week in April, & the two first days in May. 

 Hence our grass is short, & our spring-corn languishes. Our 

 wheat, which is not easily injured in strong ground bj 

 drought, looks well. The hop-planters begin to be solicitous 

 about their plantations. Here I shall presume to correct 

 (with all due deference) an expression of the great Philo- 

 sopher Dr. Derham. He say in his Physico-theology, " that 

 all cold summers are wet:" whereas he should have said most. 

 Have You seen Arthur Young's " Example of France a 

 warning to England V it is a spirited performance. The 

 season with us is unhealthy. 



With true esteem 



I remain, Y r obliged servant, 



GIL. WHITE. 



[At the head of this letter is the following note in the handwriting of 

 Mr. Marsham: — 



"This worthy man died this month."— T. 8.] 



