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The quantity of rain this year hav- 
ing exceeded any I ever had before, I 
have added here a new table of the 
wettelf months from one to twelve to 
thofe I had before given. See vol. 
LXI.p. 226. In the fevcnteen months 
from May 1773 to September 1774 
there fell 55,890 inches of rain, 
which is 3,288 inches each month ; 
and in the three years 1772, 1773, 
and 1774, there came 93,258 inches ; 
that is, 3 1 ,046 inches each year. The 
year began very fevere with a fliarp 
froft, which was not out of the ground 
for feven weeks together, though in 
the mean time there were feveral breaks, attended with 
great rains or fnows and floods, and then freezing again. 
After the frofl it was windy and wet for near a month, 
till above- a week in March ; the latter part of that month 
and all April were more fair, a good feed-time; and 
though with fome frofty mornings, yet we had in gene- 
ral more mild weather than there has been in fpring 
of late years. There was at times a good deal of fine 
weather in fummer, yet mixed with a great deal of wet ; 
it was a great grafs year, and a cool fummer. The hay- 
time and beginning of harveft were fliowery, yet more 
hindering than hurting ; but the latter part of harveft 
in September was exceeding bad indeed. No grain could 
be carried for three weeks together; for it rained every 
day,. 
Wetteft Months from 
one to twelve. 
- I 
Sept. 
8,000 
2 
A.ug^ — Sept. 
1 1,910 
f 3 
July — Sept. 
i 5 >i 37 
4 
June — Sept. 
•17,620 
5 
May — Sept. 
20,762 
6 
April — Sept. 
22,285 
7 
Mar. — Sept. 
25 >oi 3 
8 
Feb. — Sept 
26,959 
9 
Jan. — Sept. 
30,267 
10 
Dec. — Sept. 
33^64 
1 1 
Nov. — Sept. 
36,769 
12 
Odl. — Sept. 
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