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ncfs of the year 1725 they proved abortive, 
and produced hardly any Grapes. This very 
wet year had an ill effed, not only upon its 
own produdions, but alfo on thofc of the 
following year : For notwithftanding there 
was a kindly fpring and blooming feafon in 
the year 1726. yet there were few bunches 
produced, except here and there in fome 
very dry foils. This, marry Gardiners forefaw 
early, when upon pruning of the Vines, they 
obfcrved the bearing (hoots to be crude and 
immature i which was the reafon why they 
were not fruitful. The firfl: crop thus failing 
in many places, the Vines produced a fe- ^ 
cond, which had not time to come to matu- 
rity, before the cold weather came on. 
I have often obferved from thefe Ther- 
mometers, when that kind of hovering lam- 
bent Fog arifcs, (either mornings or eve- 
nings) which frequently betokens fair wea- 
ther, that the air which in the preceding 
day was much warmer, has upon the abfence 
of the fun become many degrees cooler than 
the furface of the earth ; which being near 
1500 times denfer than the air, cannot be 
fo foon affeded with the alternacies of hot 
and cold 3 whence tis probable, that thofe 
vapours 
