SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER. 
1768. 
EGINS witii a fortniglit^s frost and snow. 
Rainy during February. Cold and wet 
spring. Wet season from the beginning of 
June to tbe end of harvest. Latter end of 
September foggy, without rain. All Octo- 
ber and the first part of N^ovember rainy ; and thence to the 
end of the year alternate rains and frosts. 
1769. January and February, frosty and rainy, with 
gleams of fine weather in the intervals. To the middle of 
March, wind and rain : to the end of March, dry and windy. 
To the middle of April, stormy with rain. To the end of 
June, fine weather, with rain. To the beginning of August, 
warm, dry weather. To the end of September, rainy, with 
short intervals of fine weather. To the latter end of Octo- 
ber, frosty mornings, with fine days. The next fortnight 
rainy; thence to the end of ]N"ovember dry and frosty. 
December, windy, with rain and intervals of frost, and the 
first fortnight very foggy. 
1770. Frost for the first fortnight: during the 14th 
and 15th all the snow melted. To the end of February, 
mild, hazy weather. The whole of March frosty, with bright 
weather. April cloudy, with rain and snow. May began 
with summer showers, and ended with dark cold rains. 
June, rainy, chequered with gleams of sunshine. The first 
fortnight in July, dark and sultry ; the latter part of the 
month, heavy rain. August, September, and the first fort- 
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