[ 7r ] 
Mercury. 
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May 
bp 
s 
*7 
£ 
0 
47 
yune 
J u h 
Mug- 
Sept. 
051. 
90 
93 
90 
93 
7J 
70 
do 
6 1 
45 
3 6 
Nov. 
29 
Dec. 
7 1 
r 5 
Extremely dry : feldom any clouds : no 
rain. Every vegetable almod burnt 
up : ftrawberry-leaves, green plantain, 
and others, fo crifp as to crumble. In 
this month many black cattle died for 
want of food. 
Seafonable weather. 
Very dry. 
Very dry. 
Very dry. 
Seafonable weather towards the end of 
this month. This was the dried: dim- 
mer and autumn ever remembered. 
Many fprings dried up, that ran brifk 
before. My fpring, a remarkable 
good one, ran very flow, and the 
water was unpleafant. 
On Tuefday the 1 8th I felt three fhocks 
of an earthquake about eight minutes 
before four in the morning. The fird 
was feverelt : it ihook the houfe very 
much, and waked me. The fecond 
was lefs, and the third lead of all. 
They fucceeded each other at about 
one minute’s didance, and were felt 
all over the continent. 
On the 1 6th there was a brifk foutherly 
wind ; the mercury about noon at 7 1°. 
At four P. M. y at 69 0 : at nve o’clock 
the wind came about to N. W. blew 
exceflively hard, and did great damage 
