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AXIX. oe Account of a remarkable Froft on the 23d of June, 
1783. In a Letter from the Rev. Sir John Cullum, Bart. 
FR. S, and §. A. to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. 
Read May 27, 1784. 
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WEEN Thad the pleafure of feeing you in London, in 
the autumn, and mentioned a froft that happened in 
my neighbourhood on the 23d of laft June, you expreffed a 
defire of receiving fome particulars about it. I therefore now 
fend you fome memorandums which I made at the time. 
About fix o’clock, that morning, I obferved the air very 
much condenfed in my chamber-window; and, upon getting 
up, was informed by a tenant, who lives clofe to my houfe, 
that finding himfelf cold in bed, about three o’clock in the 
morning, he looked out at his window, and to his great fur- 
prife faw the ground covered with a white froft: and I was 
afterwards aflured, upon indubitable authority, that two men 
at Barton, about three miles off, faw between three and four 
o'clock that morning, in fome fhallow tubs, ice of the thick- 
nefs of a crown-piece, and which was not melted before fix. 
This unfeafonable froft produced fome remarkable effects. 
The arifta of the barley, which was coming into ear, became 
brown and withered at their extremities, as did the leaves of 
the oats; the rye had the appearance of being mildewed; fo 
that 


