550 Mr. barker’s Register of the Weather, Zee;, 
the clays fowed before the ground got wet, it went very 
well into the ground, and looks finely in moft places.; . 
The latter part of December was dark, fair, and mild, 
and in general calm, till the laft day a. violent ftorm, 
which fome fuppofed as ftrong as that in 1703 did a 
great deal of damage in the North of England, and the 
Eaftern part of the South of it ; but does not feem to have 
been fo ftrong toward the. Weftern parts. . 
