the Weather at Lyndon. 4,85 
got ; and the harvest was very fine, and as sunny as the season 
before had been cloudy : and it continued dry, calm, sunny, 
and burning much till the end of September ; and then at a 
very suitable time, the harvest being in, and still warmth 
enough to make the grass grow, a wet and warm October 
made plenty of it against winter. The season being fine, the 
leaves continued long upon the trees, and the winter was very 
open and warm, and no considerable frost at all, but mild and 
warm, and the ground still green ; and December was warmer 
and freer from frost than November. But it was a remarkably 
stormy winter, both for frequency and violence, doing much 
mischief among the shipping; and almost continual south and 
west winds made the passage down the Channel difficult. 
