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years.) The intervals between the frofts were fhort,, 

 arid often fro fly mornings, and a fettled froft as late as 

 the end of March ; fo that there were but few morn** 

 ings, till April 20, but were more or lefs frofty. 

 The effects were, that garden-things, tur-nips, &c 

 were very much deftroyed ; bays, arbutus, myrtles, 

 fig-trees, and other tender things, were killed down- 

 to the ground, and even mofl of the common furzj, 

 and there were fcarce any figns of fpring to that time, ., 

 and the winter corn was very thin. 



Then the weather grew milder, and in May warm,, 

 and there came a pleafant, but cool and dry, fummer,. 

 and often windy j fo that the grafs was fhort, andi 

 the crops of hay fmalL: but whether it was from the 

 ground having been (o foaked in winter, the coolnefs ; 

 of the furrrmer, or two fine rains in the middle of; 

 June and Auguft, the ground was- never fo much: 

 burnt as it fometimes is, Every thing was,, and con- 

 tinued, very backward ; the hotteft part of this fum- 

 mer was the middle of July; after which, though >. 

 there were feveral fine mowers*, the ground con-- 

 tinued to burn till toward the middle of Auguft, 

 when fome rains made the grafs to grow again j yet: 

 k began rather to burn again,, in fome places, in Sep- 

 tember. The harveft was very, late this year, efpe-- 

 cially the wheat, which both eared and ripened after 

 the barley, and mod of it was reaped in September. . 

 Both hay and harvefi were well got in, and the crops , 

 were well eared, but much. of the wheat and rye con- - 

 tinned very thin 3.. which was -too much to be feared, , 

 after fo bad a feed time, and fevere a winter. 



October was a wet and windy month, but that did ! 

 &ot hurt, after fo dry. a fummer. The wheat feed S 



time • 



