SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER. 



1768. 



EGINS with a fortnight's frost and snow. 

 Kainy during February. Cold and wet 

 spring. Wet season from the beginning of 

 June to the end of harvest. Latter end of 

 September foggy, without rain. All Octo- 

 ber and the first part of November rainy ; and thence to the 

 end of the year alternate rains and frosts, 



1769. January and February, frosty and rainy, with 

 gleams of fine weather in the intervals. To the middle of 

 March, wind and rain : to the end of March, dry and windy. 

 To the middle of April, stormy with rain. To the end of 

 June, fine weather, with rain. To the beginning of August, 

 warm, dry weather. To the end of September, rainy, with 

 short intervals of fine weather. To the latter end of Octo- 

 ber, frosty mornings, with fine days. The next fortnight 

 rainy; thence to the end of November dry and frosty. 

 December, windy, with rain and intervals of frost, and the 

 first fortnight very foggy. 



1770. Frost for the first fortnight: during the 14th 

 and 15th all the snow melted. To the end of February, 

 mild, hazy weather. The whole of March frosty, with bright 

 weather. April cloudy, with rain and snow. May began 

 with summer showers, and ended with dark cold rains. 

 June, rainy, chequered with gleams of sunshine. The first 

 fortnight in July, dark and sultry ; the latter part of the 

 month, heavy rain. August, September, and the first fort- 



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