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7 1 inches of which came in three weeks, from 
Nov. 6 to 26; but 1763 and 68, were wetter than 
70, except thofe three months : and in this country 
63 was the wetteftj yet, by what I -heard, 1 fuppofe 
68 exceeded it in many places. In common 
fpeaking, thofe are called wet years, in which the 
fummer, the growing feafon, was wet and cold ; 
and thofe dry ones, wherein the fummer was dry and 
burning j fo that though 1740, i, 2, and 3, had all 
but little rain, yet 42 and 43 were not properly 
called dry years, becaufe the ground never burned 
long together; and as the different degrees of heat, 
and frequency of rain, do not appear in this table, one 
cannot certainly judge, from the quantity of rain, 
which were the dried: fummers. Thofe complained 
of for dry, were, 1737, 40, 41, 50, 60, 62, and 65; 
but the hotted and mod burning were 1750, 60, and 
62 ; and 40 and 65 were cold and dry. On the 
other hand, the wet years were 1738, 39, 51, 52, 
56, 63, and 66 to 70 ; but the wetted 175 1, 56, 63, 
and 68 ; and above all the lad quarter of 1770. 
Feb. 12 lad, the thermometer abroad, was down 
at 4 of Fahrenheit’s fcale, which is lower than I 
have obferved it in above 20 years pad; the 
lowed I had before obferved, was io|, Jan. 5, 
1768. I have therefore given the rife and fall of the 
thermometer for above a week in the frod. 
Feb. 
