Mr . barker’s Regifler of the Weather , See. 475 
The end of winter and beginning of fpring was 
warmer in 1779 than in 1778; the end of fpring and 
beginning of fummer 1778 was hotter than 1779; the 
end of fummer and autumn 1779 hotter than in 1778^ 
but the winter 1779 was much colder than that after 
1778. 
After the great ftorm of January 1. came all the froft 
there was this winter, which was not much; fome 
broken frofts in the firft nineteen days of January, after 
which there was fcarce any at all. The weather was un- 
commonly mild, and more like fpring than winter, and 
fo dry that there was not much more than half an inch 
of rain in the firft three months, and but an inch and a 
half in four months from Dec. 1 2. to Apr. 1 2. it was 
like that of the fine winters after 1742, 49? and 60, or 
that more remarkably dry, mild, and fine one after 1733, 
of which fome account is given in the Ladies Diary for 
1 73 5 ; but many faid they never remembered fo mild a 
winter: and what was remarkable, this winter, which 
feems to have been a mild one in all the North of Eu- 
rope, was reckoned a fevere one in the South of it. 
February was fo mild and fine that the wall- 
fruit flowered, and had better weather, and fet much 
fuller, than the apples, which were two months later; 
the grafs grew alfo very con fider ably. The fpring 
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