NEW LETTERS. 
XIX 
High-wood, another rare plant. The clouds are all gone ; and 
we may expect frost. 
We have here tliis winter a weekly concert consisting of a first 
and second fiddle, two repianos, a bassoon, an haiit-boy, a violin- 
cello, and a German-flute ; to the great annoyance of tlie neigh- 
bouring pigs, which complain that their slumbers are interrupted, 
and tlieir teeth set on edge. 
(To Mlss Anne Barkek.) 
Selborne 
: Fch : 5th : 
17a 
Dear Niece, 
I was just thinking to write to some- 
RAIX AT SELBORNE 
iDodv in vour familv, when your aoTeeal)le 
IN 17S 
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letter came in. 
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As tlie late frost was attended with some 
Jan : — 
3 : 
18 
unusual circumstances, your father, I trust, 
Feb : — 
0 : 
77 
Avill not be displeased to hear the particulars. 
Mar: — 
o 
o : 
82 
The first week in Dec^ was very Avet, with 
Apr : — 
3 : 
92 
the Barom'' very low. On tlie 7th with the 
May - 
1 : 
52 
Bar : at 28-5-10: there came on a vast 
June — 
3 : 
65 
snow, which continued all that day and the 
Jnly - 
2 : 
40 
next, and most part of the following niglit ; 
Aug : — 
3 : 
88 
so that by the morning of the 9th the works 
Sepf^ — 
2 : 
51 
of men were quite overwhelmed, the lanes 
Oct'- — 
0 : 
39 
filled so as to be rendered impassable, and 
^^ov^" — 
4 : 
70 
the ground covered 12 or 14 inches where 
Dec — 
•3 : 
6 
there was no drifting. In the evening of the 
9th the air began to be so very sharp that 
Total : 
3S : 
80 
we thought it would be curious to attend to 
the motions of a Therm^ AVe therefore hung out two, one 
made by Martin and one by DoUand, which soon began to 
shew us what we were to expect. For by 10 o'clock they 
fell to 21 :— and at 11^: to 4, when we went to bed. On 
the 10th in the morning DoUand's glass was down to half a 
degree helovj zero ; and ]\Iartin s, which absurdly was graduated 
only to 4 above zero, was quite into the ball : so that when the 
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