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hills looked blue, and at a'diffahee could not be feen: the fun 
fhone very red through the haze, and fometimes could not ‘be 
feen when near fetting. There was. more or lefs of this haze 
almoft conftantly for a month, and very frequently to the end 
ef the fummer, and it did not céafe till Michaelmas; and neij- 
ther rain nor fair, wind nor calm, eaft nor weft winds, took it 
away ; andit was as extenlive as common, for it was the fame 
all over Europe, and even-to:the top of the Alps... This haze 
was very like: Virci.’s. defcription of the fummer after J. - 
C#saAr’s-death, which was probably the fame cafe, 
Cum caput obfcurd nitiduim ferrusine exit, 
for rufty iron is a very good’ defcription of. the colour the fun 
fhone. But by Prurarcu’s account, near the end of C. 
Czsar, that fummer was very different from this in other 
refpetts for, he fays, the fum gave very little heat,) the- 
air;was cloudy and heavy, and the fruits not ripened, which 
Was not the cafethis year ;. for this was a dry. haze, the fum- 
mer.in general hot and dry,; and’ in fome:countries very much. 
frit ORO sh BIO io bee 2k 
. Tthink F never knew more: mifchief done by thunder: than. 
there was in different places this year, from the beginning of 
July, .and. very. feldom more. or hotter: weather;; yet where 
they had. not, :thefe thunder-fhowers: they’ fuffered by -being: 
burutarp. Here we never) wanted grafs aften May, aid: the: 
hay andiharveft were-both: well) Pot) in5. but m Surrey,. Hamp-. 
fhirey! and Dorfet, they! were’ very: much: burnt. up, had: little 
hays: andias they had!agood'déal of thowery weather im. hares. 
veft, their barley duffered twice, from not coming upiim time,, 
and again in getting it im. + Asthe rain this yeatwas- chiefly in) 
fhowers or fudden. rains, it fell \ ee uncertainly, as appears by. 
comparing 
