'the Weather at Lyndon, &c, 239 
fpring 1741 was cold and dry, the fumtner hot, dry, and 
burning till the beginning of September ; then ten days wet 
and very warm again, being the fined autumn for grafs ever 
known. 1742 was a fliowery fu miner, and 1743 wet in the 
middle ; but then the winters were dry, fothat the quantity of 
rain upon the whole was fmall. 1741 to 1750 the mean was 
18I /inches. 1741 and 1750 were hot, dry, and burning, 
1750 being the hotted: year I have known. The intermediate 
years were neither very wet nor very dry; and this was the 
mod: plentiful and cheaped time for corn of any ten years I 
remember; for grain oftener fails in England from too much 
wet than too little. 1751 to 1760 the mean year was 224, 
1760 was hot, dry, and burning; but feveral of the fummers 
were wet, and the crops not fo plentiful. Three wet fu tu- 
rners together, 1754, 1755, and 1756, were a time of fcarcity, 
and we have had more failing crops fince that time than before 
it. From 1761 to 1770 there was 234 in a year. 1762 was 
hot, dry, and burning; and 1765 cold and dry; but feveral 
years were wet, 1763 and 1768 remarkably fo ; and of thofe 
ten years feveral had failing crops, and lome had great fnows. 
There was a great change of the feafons at 1763 ; for T have 
had more rain fince that time than I had before it in the pro- 
portion of 5 to 4. From 1770^0 1780 there was at a mean 
26 inches. 1771 was dry, and 1778 and 1779 were hot, yet 
not without fits of rain; and mod of the other years w r ere 
wet, and fome great fnows. 1 773, 1774, and 1775, were fo 
wet that there came 32 inches in a year, which is nearly dou- 
ble what there was from 1740 to 1743. In twelve months, 
from October 1773, to September 1 7 7 4 9 there came 39,390 
inches of rain, which is nearly a Lancadiire year. And in 
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