Vegetable St ducks, &f 
i t degrees above the freezing point. From 
the ioth of January to the 29th of March 
was a very dry feafon; when the green 
Wheat was generally the fineft that was 
ever remembred. But from the 29th of 
March 1725, to the 29th of September fol- 
lowing, it rained more or lefs almoft every 
day, except ten or twelve days about th& 
beginning of July\ and that whole feafon 
continued fo very cool, that the fpirit in 
the firft Thermometer rofe but to 24 degrees* 
except now and then in a fliort interval of 
Sunfhine; the fecond only to 20 degrees^ 
the fifth and ftxth to 24 and 23 degrees* 
with very little variation : So that during 
this whole fummer, thofe parts of rdots 
which were two feet under ground, had 
3 or four degrees more warmth than thofe 
which were but two inches under ground 4 
And at a medium the general degree of heat 
thro’ this whole fummer, both above and 
under ground, was not greater than the heal 
of the middle of the preceding September . 
The year 1725, having been, both in this 
Ifland, and in the neighbouring Nations, 
moft remarkably wet and cold 5 and the 
year 1723, in the other extreme, as remark* 
ably dry, as has ever been known 3 it may 
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