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nefs of the year 1725 they proved abortive, 

 and produced hardly any Grapes. This very 

 wet year had an ill effed, not only upon its 

 own produ&ions, but alfo on thofe of the 

 following year : For notwithstanding there 

 was a kindly fpring and blooming feafon in 

 the year 1726, yet there were few bunches 

 produced, except here and there in fome 

 very dry foils. This, many Gardiners forefaw 

 early, when upon pruning of the Vines, they 

 obferved the bearing fhoots to be crude and 

 immature -, which was the reafon why they 

 were not fruitful. The nrft crop thus failing 

 in many places, the Vines produced a fe- 

 cond, which had not time to come to matu- 

 rity, before the cold weather came on. 



I have often obferved from thefe Ther- 

 mometers, when that kind of hovering lam- 

 bent Fog arifes, ( either mornings or eve- 

 nings) which frequently betokens fair wea- 

 ther, that the air which in the preceding 

 day was much warmer, has upon the abfence 

 of the fun become many degrees cooler than 

 the furface of the earth 5 which being near 

 1500 times denfer than the air, cannot be 

 fo foon affe&ed with the alternacies of hot 

 and cold 5 whence tis probable, that thofe 



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