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1303 Wine exquisite, summer very hot and dry and little other fruit. 



1304 Wine little and middling. 



1305 Severe winter every thing frozen. 

 3306 to 1300 unknown. 



1311 Few grapes, winter cold, suniinfer wet ; all rotted on the vines 



1312 to 1313 unknown. 



1314 No grapes, the heat and draught were such that the vineyards 



seemed to be burned up ; 13 weeks without rain, a famme 

 and then a pestilence followed. 



1315 Very little wine. 



1316 Crop insignificant, winter very severe. 



1317 Provisions very dear, vines and fruit trees were suJBbcated under 



the extraordinary depth of snow. 



1318 Wine abundant and excellent, fruits good. 



1319 Wine sour. 



1320 Wine sour, a wet, year grain rotted on the stalk, grain was very 



dear, and for 7 years after. 



1321 Wine only passable. 



1322 Unknown. 



1323 A rigorous winter. 



1324 A rigorous winter. 



1325 Grapes plenty but sour, summer wet, deep snows. 



1326 Wine sufficiently plenty. ' 



1327 Wine bad. 



1328 Abundance of wine of very superior quality, mild winter, fruit 



trees flowered in January, the crops of grain were gathered 

 about Pentecost whitsimday, near the last of May, and the 

 vintage 15 days after abundant. 

 1329, to 1332 unknown. 



1333, Excellent wine at good prices. 



1334, Grapes abundant. 



1335, The latter season very wet, the grapes failed. 



1336, to 1337 unknown. 



1338, A scarcity of wine. In midsummer the grasshoppers came 



from the East and devastated every thing in their course. 

 Hungary, Austria, Suabia and Bavaria suffered most. 



1339, A hot summer. 



1340, and 1341 unknown. 



