484 Mr. Barker's Register of 
The frost which began the latter half of December, 1794, 
continued long in this year, an uncommonly severe winter, for 
a quarter of a year ; yet not without a thawing day or two 
now and then in January, and a greater thaw for four or five 
days, February 8 to 12, which took away a great part of the 
snow, and made a greater flood than any remembered, which 
did more damage to the bridges all over the kingdom than 
was ever known, yet without taking away all the ice and 
snow ; the frost returned again as hard as before, and with 
a less break near the end of February, it continued into 
March. It was in general a calm frost, with vast quantities 
of snow coming and going ; so that though it was pretty thick 
at times, it never lay so deep as it sometimes does. But per- 
haps some of the deep pits of snow and beds of ice were not 
entirely gone at the end of March. 
After the frost broke, there came near a fortnight of wet 
weather, not without some snow and frost ; this made the 
spring seed time begin very late ; but when it did come, it 
was very favourable and quick, cool but not frosty, and the 
grain came up well. The beginning of the summer was dry 
and cool ; a hot week about May 20 ; suddenly turned cold, 
with frosty mornings for some days, and then mild again. The 
former part of the year, both in spring and summer, was re- 
markably cloudy, and a great deal of cold weather and frosty 
mornings in May and June, and perhaps some in July ; yet a 
few hot days at times ; a week of such weather with rain at 
the beginning of June, brought on things very much. 
A showery beginning of hay time, though not in great 
quantities, was some hindrance to the' first got hay, but it in- 
creased the quantity of the later cut, which was also better 
