94 Mr. Barker’s Regijler, &c. 
the wet ; there were great eddifhes, and a vaft deal of late 
grafs, much of which was well made into hay in Auguft, 
wtych was a fine dry fummer month ; but fuch late grafs is 
not fo good as the earlier. This month was rather an interrup- 
tion than a ceafing of the wet feafon, which began again thebe- 
ginning of September, and continued to the end of the year, 
but the rain fell in lefs quantity from the middle of October to 
the middle of December ; but the feafon has been very open 
and mild, fcarcely any froft, and the ground ftill green at 
Chriftmas. 
The fummer was fo wet there was very little honey this 
year. The growth of trees was very great ; many (hoots were 
three and four feet long or more ; and a young afh tree, of fix 
feet high, in the garden, made a (hoot five feet and an half 
long, and as thick as a finger. The grain was very rank and 
foul;^there was bulk enough upon the ground, but it yielded 
very badly to the threlher, perhaps not greatly amifs to the 
acre. Harveft being late, but little was got in during the fine 
month of Auguft ; the white corn was however carried in 
tolerable order; but a great many of the beans and peafe 
were fpoiied. 
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