OBSERVATIONS. 



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aware how much ten days dripping wea- 

 ther will influence the growth of grass or 

 corn after a severe dry season. This pre- 

 sent summer, 1776, yielded a remarkable 

 instance ; for till the 30th of May the fields 

 were burnt up and naked, and the barley 

 not half out of the ground ; but now, June 

 10, there is an agreeable prospect of plenty. 



White. 



AURORA BOREALIS. 



November 1, 1787. The N. aurora 

 made a particular appearance, forming it- 

 self into a broad, red, fiery belt, which 

 extended from E. to W. across the welkin : 

 but the moon rising at about ten o'clock, 

 in unclouded majesty, in the E. put an 

 end to this grand, but awful meteorous 

 phenomenon . White. 



BLACK SPRING, 1771. 



Dr. Johnson says, that in 1771 the 

 season was so severe in the island of Sky^ 



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