Mi\ Barker's Register of the Barometer , &c. *131 
The year began with a remarkably open winter, sometimes 
quite warm and pleasant, and several times thunder. It was 
showery at first, then dry and fine; but the end of January 
and beginning of February were wet, yet still open and mild, 
and more dry afterward ; but colder, and inclined to frost, the 
end of February, and in March, the middle of which was again 
mild and fine, and not windy, but frosty toward the end. The 
last days of March, and beginning of April, were dry and 
pleasant ; a good seed time, and calm ; but rain was wanted 
toward the. end, which came plentifully the end of April, and 
beginning of May. The season in general cool, and the latter 
half more dry ; too much so in the south of England, for grass 
and hay were scarce there; but, in this country, both grass and 
corn came on well, and continued to do so all June, which was 
of a moderate heat, with a mixture of wet and dry ; frequent 
but moderate winds, and calm at the end. There was plenty 
of hay this year; but, through a very wet and windy July, a 
good deal of it was not well got. The crops of grain were al- 
most all good, and the moist July made the beans and pease 
remarkably so. The harvest, though threatening at first, was 
in general very well got ; the 'weather being chiefly fair, and 
rather hot, with some rain at times, kept the grass in a grow- 
ing state, of which there was plenty left upon the ground 
against winter. 
The autumn was in general very fine and pleasant ; for the 
most part fair, with few frosty mornings, till near the end of 
November ; when a severer season began, and continued very 
hard frost the first third of December ; then an imperfect break 
for some days, but not so as to take the frost all away. It re- 
turned again as hard as before, and continued another third 
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