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years.) The Intervals between the frofts were fhort, 
and often frofty mornings, and a fettled froft as late as 
the end of March ; fo that there were but few morn- 
ings, till April 20, but were more or lefs frofty. 
The effe&s were, that garden-things, turnips, &c* 
were very much deflroyed ; bays, arbutus, myrtles, 
fig-trees, and other tender things, were killed down 
to the ground, and even mod of the common furz ; 
and there were fcarce any figns of fpring to that time, 
and the winter corn was very thin. 
Then the weather grew milder, and in May warm, 
and there came a pleafant, but cool and dry, dimmer, 
and often windy ; fo that the grafs was fhort, and 
the crops of hay fmall : but whether it was from the 
ground having been fo foaked in winter, the. coolnefs 
of the furtfmer, or two fine rains in the. middle of 
June and Augufl, the ground was never fo much 
burnt as it fometimes is. Every thing was, . and con- - 
tinued, very backward ; the hotted: part of this fum- 
mer was the middle of July ; after which, though 
there were feveral fine fhowers, the ground con- 
tinued to burn till toward the middle of Augufl, 
when fome rains made the grafs to grow again j yet 
it began rather to burn again, in fome places, in Sep- 
tember. The harveft was very late this year, efpe- - 
dally the wheat, which both eared and ripened after 
the barley, and mod of it was reaped in September. . 
Both hay and harveft were well got in, and the crops 
were well eared, but much of the wheat and rye con- - 
tinued very thin; which was too much to be feared,, 
after fo bad a feed time, and fevere a winter. 
Qdtober was a wet and windy month, but that did 
sot hurt, after fo dry a fummer. The wheat feed 
time,,- 
