c% Vegetable Staitch. 



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 1725, to the 29th of September fol- 

 lowing, it rained more or lefs almoft c- 

 very day, except 10 or 12 days, about the 

 beginning of July % and that whole feafon 

 continued Co very cool, that the fpirit in 

 the firft Thermometer rofe but to 24 degrees, 

 except now and then a fliort interval of 

 Sunfhinej the fecond only to 20 degrees 5 

 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 3 

 or 4 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 niiddle of the preceding September. 



The year 1725, having been both in this 

 liland, and in the neighbouring Nations, 

 moft remarkably wet and cold; and the 

 year 1723, in the other extream, as remar- 

 ably dry, as has ever been known ; it may 



not 



