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Street, near the Castle Tavern, an empty Brewer’s Dray stuck fast, 
and tho’ it had five Horses, it was a long while before they could 
move it. In several parts of London, where were the greatest 
Thoroughfares for Coaches, particularly near Temple Bar, the Dirt of 
the Streets, then consisting of Snow, Mud, Ice, &c., all froze together, 
Avas ground hy the Wheels to a fine Powder, and Avould get into the 
Shoes like Sand, and Avas hardly perceptible till a Man came to sit 
still within Doors, and then he should find himself wet shod. 
“ ‘After the Frost Avas gone, there came a feAV fine, Avarm Days ; 
hut about the 7th of March, (Avhen I sett out for Norfolk,) the 
Wind settled at N. and N.W., bloAving very hard, and continued so 
with little or no variation, till the 17th of April, during av' 1 - Time 
the Weather Avas A r ery cold for the season of the Year, no Bain, and 
generally a sharp Frost at Night. About the 17th of April the 
Wind came to W., then S.W., and there fell a great deal of Bain in 
many places; but in the open parts of Norfolk there Avas only tAvo 
or three Hours’ Bain on the 20th, in the Morning ; about Noon the 
Wind came N.W., and then N., and the next Morning by four it 
began to Snow, and before Night there fell more Siioav at Nortli- 
Avold than had done all the Winter, the Wind bloAving very hard at 
N. and N.W. On the 22nd and 23rd there fell a great deal of 
Bain, the Wind still high, and in the same corner. Soon after it 
settled at E. and N.E., and continued so Avith little change till the 
middle of June ; the Weather, especially at Night, very cold all the 
Avhile, and little or no Bain. 
“ ‘ The effects of this hard Frost, and the following cold Weather 
and Drought, in the open parts of Norfolk Avere, that all tho 
Turnips Avere absolutely destroyed; the Winter Corn in the fields 
and in many other places appeared to he almost killed, so that 
many Farmers in divers parts of the kingdom, despairing of a Crop, 
plowed their lands for Barley ; but the event shoAved they were 
greatly mistaken in their judgment, for the Crop of Winter Corn, 
particularly in Norfolk, proved as plentiful as ever Avas knoAvn ; 
never Avere seen larger ears or finer Grain. The flocks in the 
Champaign Country, and in most other places, Avere half destroyed, 
and most of the Lambs died, purely for Avant of Sustenance, thoro 
being no Grass at all, either in the Meadows or on the Heaths, and 
many of the Babbitts in the Warrens Avere starved ; the Furze and 
Ling were killed ; and in this present Year, 1744, tliero is scarce 
