Vegetable Staticks. 6/ 



1 1 degrees above the freezing point. From 

 the ioth of January to the 29th of March 

 was a very dry feafon ; when the green 

 Wheat was generally the fineft that was 

 ever remembred. But from the 29th of 

 March J725, to the 29th of September fol- 

 lowing, it rained more or lefs almoft every 

 day, except ten or twelve days about the 

 beginning of July ; and that whole feafon 

 continued fo very cool, that the fpirit in 

 the firft Thermometer rofe but to 24 degrees? 

 except now and then in a fhort interval of 

 Sunfhine ; the fecond only to 20 degrees ; 

 the fifth and fixth to 24 and 23 degrees, 

 with very little variation: So that during 

 this whole fummer, thofe parts of roots which 

 were two feet under ground, had three or 

 four degrees more warmth than thofe which 

 were but two inches under ground : And at 

 a medium the general degree of heat thro' 

 this whole fummer, both above and under 

 ground, was not greater than the heat of 

 the middle of the preceding September. 



The year 1725 having b°en, both inthis 

 iiland, and in the neighbouring nations, mod 

 remarkably wet and cold; and the year 

 J 723, in the other extreme, as remarkably 

 dr" 355 has ever been known ; it may not 



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