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and dry, sometimes however showery, winds often 
easterly and northerly. May is showery with fine 
intervals; it is variable in heat and wind. June is 
occasionally fine and warm, but generally change¬ 
able, with intervals of cold winds from south, 
south-west, and west. July is settled in character, 
but floods nearly always occur. August is also of 
settled character. September is generally settled, 
but sometimes rainy. October is cold, and rainy;— 
winds often from the west. November is windy, 
wet, and variable. December, rainy. 
It is worthy of remark, that some alteration 
is thought to have taken place with regard to 
the connection subsisting between the several 
seasons, and certain corresponding months. On 
consideration however, and on enquiry among per¬ 
sons, I cannot find that this opinion receives further 
support that the actual fact of our winters having of 
late been considerably lengthened out into spring, 
or rather into months usually correspondent with 
the first part of that season, whereby, spring itself is 
not removed, but shortened by about one month, 
summer and the succeeding seasons commencing 
at their proper periods. I am not inclined to place 
much confidence even in this rule, for, though 
February would here appear to be the suffering 
month, it is sometimes tolerably fine, while severe 
cold attacks us so late as the end of April in some 
years as above noticed. I must also observe, that 
in two years it has appeared as though there had 
been a precocity in the springs, February seemed 
to be lost by the winds of March occurring in this 
period, then, March presented us with showers 
characteristic usually of April, and subsequently, 
April displayed the flowers and beauties of May. 
I am disposed to think, from the few observations 
I have been able to make, that in investigating the 
causes and nature of blights , persons have not taken 
