Mr. Barker’s Regffir, &c. 
whether because the feed was ill gotten laft year, or becaufe a’ 
frofty March after they were fown fpoiled them. I think I 
fca'rce ever knew more north winds in fummer, or more eaft 
winds in October or November, than this year. From Auguft 
to December there was a great deal of rain by fits, particularly 
the middle of Auguft, about Michaelmas, the. 6th to the 12th 
of October, the third week in November, and firif half of 
December; yet with intervals of fair fine weather between. 
It was much windy, and fome great {forms on September 14, 
October 8, and December 14. The N E. winds in. October and 
November brought on cold weather early ; and the accounts 
from the northern countries complained of a fevere beginning 
of winter, almoft (hutting up the Baltic before the ufual time ; 
but the reft of the winter proved very different. After the 
rains in the former part of December, the year ended frofiy, 
and to Chriftmas as (harp as any this winter; but no way 
remarkable, and with little of either rain or fnow. 
Since I faw that corona about the Moon, mentioned in Phi- 
lofophical Tran factions, Vol. LXX 1 II. p. 245. I have fome 
few times feen a very faint appearance of it, and made the 
following remarks about it. The common bright circle round 
the moon, bounded by a yellowifli red, is of much larger dia- 
meter, more diffufed, and fainter, when the air is warm and 
the clouds mifty ; but no corona then appears. The time to 
expeft it is in a frofl, or when inclined to it, the clouds better 
defined and white ; that firft circle is then much lefs in dia- 
meter and brighter. It was remarkably fo when the corona 
appeared November 37, 1782: and it has always been fo in 
fome meafure, whenever there has been any tendency to it 
fince. 
