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ber; and, by the middle of that month, the ground 
was got confiderably drier than it had been ; but it 
grew very wet again, and mifty, till three fharp fi ofty 
days concluded the year. 
This year was much too wet for corn j the barley 
was almoft ^every where bad; the wheat and beans 
looked better in the field ; but moft forts of grain, 
when they came to be threfhed, this year yielded 
lefs corn, than was expe&ed ; and it continues to be 
dear, and is too likely to be fo, while the feafons are 
io wet as they have of late years been. 
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