CLIMATE. 
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Bredon Hills, south of Pershore, and south-east of 
the Avon, is also of considerable height and magnitude, 
and seen to a great distance; these are the bleak and 
inclement parts of the county ; the remaining lowlands 
and fertile vales have an atmosphere warm, salubrious, 
and healthy, as any in the kingdom. Bredon Hill is 
probably of 8 or Q00 feet elevation above the Avon, 
and stands upon a base of very considerable extent, the 
surrounding cultivated lands being generally of great 
fertility. 
As the time of harvest is considerably indicative of 
the climate, I shall here observe that in 1807, wheat 
reaping commenced on light land near Kidderminster 
July 23d, and a few days after, in different parts of the 
county ; rye reaping the same ; a field of barley was 
finished carrying August 3d ; the same at Fladbury the 
first week in August; at which time the reaping of 
both lammas and cone wheat, and the mowing of barley 
and oats was becoming general in the Yale of Evesham, 
and most parts of the county. 
I could gain intelligence of no meteorological regis¬ 
ters; the largest proportion of rain comes from the 
south-w r est. I suspect a much less quantity falls here, 
than in the counties more inland and more elevated ; in 
Staffordshire the annual rains generally exceed thirty- 
six inches ; in this county I suppose them to fall short of 
thirty, the clouds flying over the low lands, and, as they 
pass on, becoming attracted by that more elevated. 
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