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The year began with a fhort dry froft, then fhowery, inter- 
mixed with froft. The end of January, and near half of Fe- 
beuary, ftormy and wet, and after ten days fine and mild; a 
fevere feafon for fnow, wet, oe and froft. ~The end of Fe- 
‘bruary and beginning of March cut the grafs, corn, and ftock,, 
more than‘all the winter before. From March to. to May 27. 
was a very dry feafon and fine feed-time; but fo dry at laft the 
late {own corn could not come up. The fpring was pleafant 5 
but almoft conftant frofty mornings till April, and frequent 
afterward, kept things backwards and:though there was fome 
fine warm weather the middle of April, yet later in May the 
drought aud N.E. winds ftopped the growth of things; and 
two fharp frofty nights, May 25. and 26. the rime was fe par- | 
ticularly cutting in the meadows, that the young. fhoets.on - 
many oak and ath trees in the vallies were entirely killed, while, ft 
thofe-on the hills were unhurt; and fome of the tops of the: 
trees sees though the bottoms were blafted. 3 
May 27. to 30. in a continued three days rain there fell 38 
inches, w rich: is, I believe, the moft that has come in one, 
continued unceafinge rain fince July 1736, when, in about: che! 
{fame time, there came five inches 3 bu the rain this May was. | 
not alike in all places, for there was not a quarter fo mudh' ‘ink 
Hampthire. This rain was of vaft fervice to bring up the late, | 
fown corn, and: make the graff grow well; but this and tome! 
other hafty ‘rains afterwards hurt the meadow prafs, by floodingy. 
it threé tines. Hot weather fheceedings it was avery’ gro Tn ! 
time, and ten days together, in the middle of June,, wete ally) 
wet. | ase te She | Hiytse © 
Dunne the thowery time an ‘ancofririon: hisinety began! 
which | iwas very remarkable all the reft of the. fummer } ‘el, 
air was. -all thick both below the clouds and above them, the: 
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