*«4 Mr. Barker’s meteorological Journal. 
was more grafs after that than there had been any part of the 
fummer before, though not luch quantities as there fometimes 
is ; for, take the year throughout, I think I never knew lefs. 
But that was not the cafe in all parts of England : I believe it 
was in general a dry fummer every where; but in fome places 
there was a great deal of grafs at times. So great a fruit year 
of moft forts, garden, orchard, and wild, I think, I hardly 
ever knew. After the firft week in October it was dry again, 
and fo fine, mild, and clear of frofts, that the nafturtiums 
were not cut off till after the middle of November ; and the 
ground and roads continued dry till the fnowat Chriftmas, and 
there was in many places great want of water lo late in the 
year, Moft part of the laft week in November, and the firft 
third part of December, was a gentle froft ; but then it fet 
in very fevere, and, except an imperfedt thaw the 24th and 
2^th, has been an uncommonly cold and hard froft, freezing 
over many of the rivers, with a confiderable fnow at times, 
chiefly the 26th and 27th, and continued to the end of the 
year, and beyond it. 
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Account of a fnking-in of the ground . 
In a wet feafon, about Chriftmas 1787, a piece of appa- 
rently found ground on the north fide of a moderate hill, a 
mile and half fouth-weft from Ketton in Rutland, funk down 
into the earth, leaving a great hollow. The ground was 
fmooth before, and a waggon had lately gone over the place. 
There was nobody by when it fell in ; but a labourer going 
home from his work was the firft perfon who found it. 
It was fome time after the accident before I heard of it, and 
it 
