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day, and in great quantities. I never meafnred fo wet a 
niontli before. Xbe wbeat and oats were chiefly got in 
before it, and a great deal of barley ; yet, as it was a late 
harveft, there was a great deal of the barley out, fome 
wheat, and almoft all the beans and peafe. The wheat 
through the fevere and wet winter was all along thin, 
and much of it mildewed by the wet towards harveft. 
The crop of barley was not amifs, if it could have been 
all well got ; but fome of it fuffered by the wet after it 
w'as cut. The beans and peafe were a remarkable great 
crop till harveft; hut almoft intirely fpoiled in it. There 
was a great deal of winter meat for the cattle this year, 
plenty of good grafs, a great deal of hay, and fine crops 
of turneps ; but the ftraw of that corn, which was out in 
the wet, was fpoiled. The weather fettled juft at the 
beginning of 061ober, which was a very fine month, 
almoft like fummer; and it was not till then that the 
harveft could be finifhed. T. he wheat feed-time was 
good, and the reft of the year favourable upon the whole; 
though a froft at the end of November and beginning 
of December was earlier than ufual, attended with fnnw, 
and threatened a fevere winter in moft parts of Turope , 
yet it grew mild again afterward, was in general fair^ 
and the ground continued tolerably dry, and a few frofty 
days concluded the year. 
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