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“ June. The first three weeks in June was fine weather, except 
their being too hot ; y e 18th, 19th, and 20th seem’d the hottest days 
of clear skys that I had felt in England, and yet they were of N. and 
E. winds ; from this to y° last day of y e month was cool, yet there 
was thunder on y e 26th, but y e 28th was remarkably cold. On y* 
10th of this month (June) was a dreadful tempest in y e afternoon 
and evening, that extended (to my knowledge) near 150 miles at 
y e same instant, viz., about sunset ; for I trac’d it by many persons 
from Windsor to y e north of Norfolk ; on both y e Essex and New- 
market roads ; the rain was also great in most of y e way. The 8th 
I saw oats in ear, and y e 9th barley in ear in Suffolk, and y e 25th 
buck in flower. 
“ July. July began hot y e first week, but from y® 7th to 22nd 
were fifteen the hottest days together I ever felt (I believe) in my 
life, yet there were tempests on y e lltli, 12th, and 16th, and 
several days showers; 26th a great tempest, with rain and hail ; 
the hail laid some inches deep y e next day ; 27th thunder again, 
and y e 31st more thunder. The only cool day in y° whole month 
of July was y e 29th. 
“August. First- week of August fine weather, and most days a 
shower ; the rest of y e month generally fine dry weather. I never 
knew the autumn begin so early. The first harvest I saw was oates 
on y B 11th of July, and wheat on y e 24th, viz., in Norfolk; and 
most of y® moderate farmers had ended harvest before August was 
out, which they had a very fine season for. The brakes, and many 
oaks, beech, birch, and ash, were turned brown, and some ash and 
birch quite naked ; and all the birch leaves had changed colour. 
The uncommon dryness of this year had, no doubt, brought on 
autumn sooner than usuul. Most ponds and standing waters were 
now dry, and many small streams that us’d to run all sum’r, were 
also dry, by which the farmers suffer’d great inconvenience, in 
being forc’d to drive their cattle a great way for water ; this was 
some miles in some parts of Norfolk. 
“ September. The 2nd and 3rd of September were rainy, thence 
to y e 23rd fine time; y® 10th was very hot, and almost all y® days 
fine and warm ; on y® 14th I saw blew violets, (in Norfolk,) and 
think they had been in flower almost all y° year in the samo gar- 
den ; from y® 24th to y® end of y® month was mostly drizzle and 
cool, with N. and easterly wind. 
