286 > Mr. Barxar’s Regifer, &ee 
compating what fell here with that in Hampfhire. ‘The latter 
part of Auguft and firft half of September was fhawery ; but 
in this country not fo much as to hurt the harveft, a great part 
of which was in firft. The crop ef grain was in, general 
pretty good, but did not yield enough to make up the defeé: 
of the laft year’s crop, every body was fo much out of all forts, 
as the corn lait year was both fearce aud bad; grain, therefore, 
continued dear this year, efpecially barley. 
The fummer 1782 had been fo cold and’ wet, that the 
flower buds on many trees were very fmall and not perfected, 
fo that this {pring there was a great want of bloffoms on the 
wall fruit and apples, and exceeding few indeed on ath-trees 
and hawthorn. I do not know of any athkeys at all, nor any. 
bunches of haws, only a few {cattered fingle ones; but cher- 
ries and plumbs bloffomed well, and there was no want of 
fruit; plenty of currants, and vaft quantities of goofeberries. | 
Auguft 18.a remarkable ball of fire was feen between nine and 
ten at night all over England, and even in foreign countries. © It 
feemed to move from north to fouth or fouth-eaft. There 
was another Oétober 4. but not fo much obferved, and fome 
fay another afterward, but little feen; but there. were wigs 
northern lights this autumn. i | 
The autumn was a very fine ones; calm, fair, and enild, site 
rather too dry for the fowing of wheat, which, however, in 
general came up well, and what lay dry was brought up very 
finely by ten days wet the middle of November; after which 
it was dry and fine again, an open mild time, with few frofty 
mornings; but a good deal of dark or mifty weather in Decem= _ 
ber, yet mild till the laft week, when there came a great {now, 
very fevere froft, and cutting ftrong wind, which ended the year. _ 
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