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time was fine and good, and the grain came up very well, but: 
the firfl: three weeks of April were cold, backening, and often 
frofty. Toward the end it was more fhowery, warmer- and' 
growing, and from that time the fpring continued to come on,, 
and there were fo few N.E. winds that fhips found a difficulty 
in getting down the channel, which is very unufual at that 
time of year, and all the fpring from the end of February till 
toward, the end of June was very windy, chiefly N.W. and: 
S..W. 
In the former part of dimmer there were at times very hot 
days ; but the feafon was oftener cool ; many little ffiowers, 
which in fome countries were fo- final! there was want of rain, 
and grafs, here we did pretty well.. The hay-time was fine, 
but the crop fmall. The harveft was exceedingly well got : 
the barley and oats good, and fome of the wheat; but the late- 
fown was thin through the levere winter, and in feveral places, 
the wheat was mildewed,, which could not be by wet fuch ai 
year as this; but by this means wheat became three times the 
price of barley, being 5a and 52 (hillings ^quarter, and: bar- 
ley 16 or 1 7 fhillings. From the latter part of July to the 
beginning of September it was very dry, hot, and burning ; 
much fcorching fun, the ground very much, burnt up, and 
great want of water; but the N.E., winds, which cam*e at this, 
time of year inftead: of the fpring,, were fometimes freih and: 
cool. 
The beginning of September the rains began, and for above 
two months there was a good deal,, with fuch fine and warni: 
weather, that there was good grafs,. a pleafant autumn, and: 
very few frofty mornings, and the ground, which before Was. 
fo dry, did not get much dirty with it. The wheat feed-time 
was fine, and the weather mild till the middle of November, 
