37 2 Mr. barker’s Re gift er of the Weather. 
are at that feafon, the many ftrong Wefterly winds keep- 
ing them back. The feed-time was fine, and the feafon 
good for corn. There were Northerly winds the former 
part of April, but they were not fharp ones; and the 
latter part of the month was hot, fome days more fo than 
in the height of fummer. 
The former part of the fummer was fine, hot, and 
dry; fome ftony pari flies burnt a good deal, efpecially 
where the grounds were hard-flocked, and the crop of 
hay was but was frnall; yet in general the grafs had got 
fo forward in lpring that it held out pretty well. There 
was a great deal of fine weather this year; and though 
there was a great deal of rain in the latter part of the 
fummer, fo much fine weather was intermixed with it 
that molt of the hay and harveft were got in well. Thefe 
rains began the beginning of July, were confiderable 
but not frequent at firft, came oftener toward the end of 
it and in Auguft, and were almoft continual the firft 
three weeks of September, with feveral thunder-ftorms. 
What harveft was ftill out, which in this country was 
chiefly peafe and beans, was much fpoiled; but in the 
fens and feveral other countries a good of barley was not 
finiflied. The latter end of September and beginning of 
October vcere fine, and finiflied the harveft ; but the rains 
returned again, and continued to the end of November, 
yet in lefs quantities than before, and the wheat feed- 
time was pretty good. The end of the year was fine and 
in general dry; at firft warm, and afterward frequent 
frofty mornings, but no fettled froft. The dry weather 
5 before 
