ihe Weather at Lyndon in Rutland, See. 483 
In the height of hay time, a good deal of it was well made ? 
but fome of the firft cut, and the latter was caught in the wet £ 
for after the 19th it was fhowery or wet, and the 30th and 
31ft were, all over Leicefterfhire, Rutland, and part of Lin- 
colnfhire, the greateft flood (ince July 1736 ; and it continued 
wet and cool all Auguft, fo that the fummer was in general 
cold, wet, and backward, yet with foijie very fine fits in it. 
The harveft began but indifferently ; but being late this year* 
and the weather wet, not much was carried before September, 
when, in about three weeks calm, hot, and dry weather, yet 
with vafl: dews, moft of the white corn was well got in this 
country | but fome of the peafe, and, where it was earlier and. 
later, fome of the white corn was carried damp, for the end 
of September was again wet. 
The autumn was various ; a dry and fine O&ober, toward the 
end of it fliarp frofty mornings ; a fliowery November,, with a 
lharp frofl: in the middle, fe t often pleafant ; and after Decem- 
ber 5th, a confiderable fnow (in fome countries it was very 
great) and a feverer frofl: than is ufual before Chriftmas lafled 
till into January. 
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