C % f 'egetable Statich. 
the loth oi January to the 29th of March 
was a very dry fcafon 5 when the green 
Wheat was generally the fineft that was 
ever reniembred. But from the 29th of 
March 1725, to the 29th of September fol- 
lowing, it rained more or lefs almoft e* 
very day, except 10 or 12 days, about the 
beginning of July j and that whole feafon 
continued fo very cool, that the fpirit in 
the firft Thermometerio^o, but to 24 degrees, 
except now and then a fhort interval of 
Sunfliinei the fecond only to 20 degrees; 
the fifth and fixth to 24 and 23 degrees, 
with very little variation : So that during 
this whole fummer, thofe parts of roots 
which were two feet under ground , had 3 
or 4 degrees more warmth than thofe 
which were but two inches under ground : 
And at a medium the general degree of heat, 
thro’ this whole fummer , both above and 
under ground, was not greater than the heat 
of the middle of the preceding September, 
The year 1725, having been both in this 
llland, and in the neighbouring Nations, 
moft remarkably wet and cold; and the 
year 1723, in the other extream, as remar- 
ably dry, as has ever been known; it may 
not 
