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Mr. Barker's Register, &c. 
The winter was a severe one ; there was a sharp frost every 
month from December to March, chiefly between the full and 
the new moons, and the intervals were often stormy and wet ; 
but those in February, both at the middle and latter end of 
the month, were milder, and less wet. The beginning of 
March continued mild, with frequent though small rains ; 
then followed as sharp a frost, for a week, as any in the win- 
ter. After that stormy weather into April, but warm and 
growing ; till a violent thunder storm toward Stamford the 
13th, and two days continued rain here, and in most other 
places, about the 18th, renewed the wet season ; which lasted 
all summer, and was perhaps wetter in many places than 
here, for we had no heavy thunder storms all the summer, as 
they had in some parts. Whenever there was thunder this 
year, it was almost always cold after it, and often cold weather 
without it ; very little sunshine, and many sharp frosty 
mornings both in May and June, which cut off the apples 
after they appeared to be set. The greatest rains this sum- 
mer were after the middle of April ; before the middle of May ; 
about the 8th of June; the 21st of July; the 18th of August; 
and 14th of September : those in April, June, and July, made 
floods, the two latter of which did great damage to the mea- 
dow hay ; and there were frequent, sometimes almost daily, 
lesser rains. The intervals of fair and fine weather were short, 
and not many, and those not always warm ; the beginning of 
May, and about the 21st; the beginning and end of June; the 
beginning of July; and, what was the finest time this summer, 
the first half of August. During this, in general so very wet a 
season, the hay and harvest were got in, and, where they 
were not flooded, I think with less damage than might have 
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