Mr. barker’s Regijler cf the Weather, See. 243 
The be ginning of January was chiefly mild, and lome thun- 
der ; but as the year advanced it grew more frody, intermixed 
with dorms and rain, and was a fevere latter end of the win- 
ter ; not long nor fettled frods, but frequent, efpecially in 
March, which was almod all either froft and fnow, or dorms 
and wet, and was followed by fo wet, cold, and backward a 
feafon for two months as none remembered. Near twelve 
inches of rain in April and May, and every thing was fix 
weeks or two months later than ufual, and the north and ead 
winds were wet, a fure fign of a wet ieafon ; and fometimes 
there came great rains from the ead for two or three days toge- 
ther, and vad floods. 
The wall fruit was not only bladed in the blofifom, but 
mod of what feemed fet fell off afterward, and the leaves and 
ihoots were fo much killed, that the trees looked almod dead. 
The barley feed-time was very bad ; a great deal could hardly 
be fowed at all, or fo late it was never well ripened. It ap- 
pears to have been a very bad feafon in other parts of Europe 
alfo. xMore frod, and greater fnows and rains than ufual, in 
the latter part of winter and fpring, even in the fouthern 
parts. In May and June there was an almod univerfal cold or 
other illnefs all over Europe, but few entirely efcaped it ; to 
many it was but dight, yet in fome places it was mortal. 
June w r as the bed month this dimmer, the fhowers being 
then fewer and fmaller ; yet there was never any long conti- 
nuance of fine weather, but it w r as loon interrupted either by 
general wet fits, or by violent and great partial rains and thun- 
der, in particular places, while it was fair elfewhere. In fo 
wet a feafon hay was, as it might be expeded, plentiful, but a 
great deal of it ill got, and vad quantities of grafs the latter 
part of the lummer. 
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