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List of Droughts of the D Series. 
aa 1630, drought in England; 1631, drought and famine in 
India and throughout Asia. 
1610 Excessive heat and drought in England ; red rain fell. 
1591 1590-92, extreme heat in England with plagues of insects. 
1572 Red rain fell 1571. 
1553 +1651 to 1654, in England they had scorching hot and dry 
summers, 
1534 No record. 
1515 1516-17, hot and dry in England. 
1496 1498, very great drought in England. 
1477 Great heat and drought in England. 
1458 No record. 
1439 1437, wheat sold in England for six times its normal price. 
1420 Red rain, March 1822. 
tt No record. 
1363 1361, very grevious drought in England. 
1344 1344-5, all Hindustan suffered from drought and famine. » 
1325 No record. 
1306 1303-4-5, protracted drought in Europe, in so much that 
the largest rivers of Europe, the Rhine, the Seine, the Po, 
and the Tiber, all shrank to the tiniest streamlets. (Zng. 
Mech., Vol. xxx1x., p. 506.) 
1287 1285, great and sudden darkness, then such drought and 
and heat as killed most grain in England. 
1288, heat and drought so intense that it killed pene , 
perso 
1154 isa: very dry and cold, followed after harvest by greatest 
heat and drought. 
135-1135 and 1137, great drought in France and England. 
In 1132 the earth was so burnt up by the intense solar 
heat that that great fissures appeared in it miles ies estes oie 
fech., XXX1x, oy 
