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By doubling the deficiency of the heat, therefore, we do a great deal more than 

 double the deficiency of the crop, fo that the latter varies in a higher ratio than 

 the former. 



The limit at which corn will not ripen, is probably higher than 46 , and may per- 

 haps be ftated at 48 . If it be alarming to think that our climate has, in any cafe, 

 come fo near to a line, beyond which the labours of the hufbandman are ineffectual, 

 it is comfortable to refleft, that the refources of the country have been able to- 

 provide a remedy even for fo great an evil, and to avert all its moil fatal effects, 



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