Mr. barker’s Regifler of the Weather .. 373 
before Midfummer fuited the wheat and barley, which 
were this year a good crop, and the grain large and fine, 
and cheaper than they have been tor feveral years paft. 
The weather was lefs favourable in the South of Eng- 
land ; the dry fpring was drier and more burning; the 
barley of two growths, and fome did not come up till 
Midfummer. The wet afterward was alio greater, efpe- 
cially in Hampfhire, fo that their hay and harveft ful- 
lered more than ours, and their barley, in particular, 
coming up late, was late ripe, and was half, or in fome 
places molt ol it, damaged by the wet. The barley failed 
alio in Norlolk, it not earing well on account of the dry 
feafon. 
For a good many years paft, fince the feafons have 
been in general wet, the nature of Eaft winds has been 
very different from what it was before. Several years 
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.alter the great Irolf in 1740 there were a great many 
N.E. winds in fpring, but they were in general cold and 
dry, hopping vegetation; but for the lafl ten years, the 
Eaft winds have been often very wet; many of the 
greateft fummer floods were by rain out of that quarter, 
and many times there came rain almofl as certainly as 
the wind turned Eaft. 
An experiment of parting frejh-water from fait by freezing . 
IN the fevere froft laft January, fome falt-water, being 
fet abroad, froze into an ice which was not folid but 
porous, the hollows being filled with the faltefl part of 
the water, for the ice, when drained, was quite freflr. 
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