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any time beneficial, it muft be fo this dry feafon. _ The winter tares are, in general, very far 
from good, and, unlefs there fhould foon fall fome warm growing fhowers, they will be but of: 
littie profit. : 
The winter wheats have, on moft foils, a promifing appearance, even inthe mot expofed dif- 
trits they have kept the ground unufually well, and are in the moft healthy and vigorous ftate. 
of growth, Thofe of the /pring fowings have likewife the appearance ef covering the ground 
well, as well asofa vigorous and healthy growth. In the beft corn markets throughout the 
kingdom grain feems, in general, on the decline in price. —Wheat averages 56s. sd.; rye 
36s. 7d.; barley 24s.1d-5 oats 19s. sd. ; beans3rs. 6d.; peafe 35s. 2d. Yet, although the 
price of grain feems to be onthe decline, the increafe in /and-rents is confiderable in many places. 
The hay diftrits have, in common, the appearance of being more early, and of having more 
abundant fupplies of grafs, than is generally the cafe at this period. On fome warm, fheltered, 
and highly manured fpots, the ray’grafs and clover is fufficiently forward to admit of being 
ftocked with milking cows, laying them at night in the yards. On the pafture lands, 
A there is alfo, in moft diftriGts, a great fhow of grafs, confidering the earlinefs of the feafon. The 
clover and other fown graffes are likewife in an unufual ftate of forwardnefs and vie, - over al- 
moft every part of the ifland, where they are cultivated. But, notwithftanding thele promifing 
appearances of an abundant fupply of green food for cattle, the prices of both fat and lean ftock, 
of all forts, ftill keep up> 
t Milch cows every where bring extravagant prices; their advance, in fome of the northern 
/ parts of the kingdom, being nearly equal to eight or ten per cent. Store cattle alfo keep up their 
price, Sheep are very high, efpecially good heavy woolled, lamb hogs, and forward couples, 
Horfes keep their price. Store hogs are lower.—In Smithfield Market beef feils from 4s. $d: 
to 5s. 6d-; mutton 5s. to 6s.3; veal 4s. to 6s- 6d-; pork 4s. 4d. to 5s. 4d. 
Hay is fomething on the decline.—In St.James’s Market, hay fells from 4]. 6s, to 71.5 ftraw 
21, 2s- to 21. 11s. 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT: 
; | Obfervations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of March, to the oath &F 
April, inclufively, 1801, two miles N. W. of St. Paul's. it 
Barometer. : Thermometer. 
Higheft 30.20. April 12—14,. Wind E« Higheft 66°-Aprils sand16, Wind N.W, &S.E~ 
Leweft 29.04, April 21, Wind W. Loweft 35°. March 28, Wind S. E. 
| z On the morning of the 
Between the morn- Greatett 28th of March, the 
Creatett ings of the 2oth sigs r] es 
batutvon a 4-tenths < and 2tft, the ba- ca betirt "s we as4 5°. at the fame time 
24 hours, ey an snch,, BaUncsek, sen eae : the next day, it. was 
29-44. to 29-04. 45°60 
thermometer was as low 
The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft Report is equal to 12557 inches in height. 
The greater part of this month, the ftate of the atmofphere has been clear, and the tempera- 
ture equal to, or rather above, what is confidered the mean height for the feafon. From the 
25th ult. to the 17th inftant, very little rain fell, excepting on Good Friday ; but, from the +8th 
to this day (the 24th) the weather shas been cold and rainy, and on two days there have been 
fhow, and a confiderable fall of hail, accompanied with violent claps of thunder. 
The mean height of the barometer for the whole month is 29.8; and that of the thermome- 
ter fomething more than 51°: the wind has been chiefly weft, fouth-weft, and more than half 
the days have been remarkably brilliant. The cold nights during the laft week will probably — 
be feverely felt in the kitchen gardens. . 
Citizen Lalande, in his Hiftory of Aftronomy for the laft year, obferves, ‘‘ that meteorology 
had, during that period, prefented fome very uncommon phenomena, In the month of January, 
a moft extraordinary flood raifed the water in the Seine twenty-two feet and a half higher than 
it wasin the year 1719. On the 25th of May, a fevere froft made dreadful havock among the 
productions of the garden; and, on the 14th of the fame month, it fnowed at Munich for forty- 
five hours together. Inthe months of July and Auguft, an exceffive degree of heat lafted for 
forty fucceflive days, during which the thermometer was fometimes as high as 29° of Reaumur’s. 
Se ae which is equal to 9752 of Fahrenheit, a degree of heat which is rarely known is 
aris,”” . 
It will be feen, by referring to the Meteorological Report contained in the Monthly Maga- 
zine, that the weather in the month of May, 1802, was, in the neighbourhood of London, equally _ 
fevere and unfeafonable, but the greateft cold did not happen on the fame days as thofe referred 
to by C. Lalande. Our greateft heat was in Auguft and September, but in no inftance was the 
thermometer, in the fhade, as high as 82° of Fahrenheit. 
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