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IV. The Rain in 1715- (which tvasthe only Year 
in which Mr. Robie obfervet : ) in the Afferent 
Months, amounted to differ*. : Quantities.; but in 
the whole Year, it was nearly ne fame as it Up- 
minjter ; that at Harvard-College being 130,64 tb, 
that at Upminfter 118,92. 16 But confidering that 
Mr. Robie's ‘Tunnel that received his Rain, was but 
H i Inches in Diameter, and mine exa&ly iz , there- 
fore the Proportion of the Nev- England JkTin may 
be accounted fomewhat the greater. 
V. I obferved at Upminjter, that in January the 
Contagion which was very fatal among the Black 
Cattle about London the latter End of the laft Year, 
came amongftus, and deftroyed many. 
In March many were afflicted with Head-aches ; 
and the Small-Pox was epidemical : And the Earth 
being very dry, the Ponds empty, and the Springs 
low, in that and the next Month there fell good Store 
of feafonable Rain, as the Table for that Year Ihews, 
but not Sufficient to fill the Ponds. But in June , July 
and Augujt<i more Rain fell than was welcome j 
which tilled the Ponds, but hurt the Hay, and Corn, 
and made the Ways as dirty as in Winter. 
In the Summer this Year I had many Confirmati- 
ons of fome former Obfervations in my Phyfico-Theo- 
logy , Lib. I. Ch. 3. viz. That a cold Summer is 
commonly a vet one. Which this Summer was, the 
Spirits in the Thermometer being often low, particu- 
larly near the Point of Hoar-Frojl on Huguft iz. 
In January , the following Year 1716, the River 
of Thames was frozen for feveral Miles, and particu- 
larly fo intenfely at London , that whole Streets of 
Booths were erefted on the Ice, Oxen roafted, Coaches 
driven 
