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crop is very promifing. Excepting lands yet covered with turnips, in this diftrict, almoft every 
acre is prepared for receiving the feed intended to be fown thereon; andon dry loams fome far- 
mets have begun te drillbeans, Was the weather to fet in dry, fowing would become general 
both of beans and cats, . 
The few frofty nights that have occurred, have given a very neceffary check to the overs 
tumuriant wheats of the low and richer forts of land; and on the high grounds they have every 
where the moft promifing appearances: The grafs lands of every defcription, are inan unufual 
flace of growth in moft of the diftricts, and in fome they are faid to be at prefent in that ftate of 
forwardnefs, which, in ordinary years, is common about April. But notwithftanding the eafe and 
facility of keeping different forts of ftock on this account; cattle-and fheep ftill fetch hich 
prices, and are fcarce, Such has beén the quantity of green foed in the Lamb-fuckling Dittriéts, 
that tltert has been hitherto little or no trouble in getting them forward and ready for the markets. 
Grain, The price-of grain of every kind is-ftill extravagantly high, probably, much beyond 
what the ftate fof the ftock in hand juftifies; efpecially under the limited confumption whichal- . 
moft every family has laid itfelf under, It ig therefore but a fair prefumption that we fhall fiad thofe 
prices much lower, as we approach to another harveft. Wheat, throughout England and Wales, 
averages the enormous price of 1458.3 barley, $gs-; and oats, 47s. In North-Britain, grain 
ftill continues very high priced ; and the quantity in the ftack-yards is lefs than ever recollected 
at this feafon of the year. 
Cattle. In Smithfield Market, beef fetches from 4s. 6d. to 6s, 4d. per ftone; mutton, from 
6s. to 7s. g4d.; and pork from 6s. to 7s. Beef and mutton, in North-Britain, which were 
extremely moderate, in comparifon with other neceffaries of life, during the winter, have now, 
begun to ftart in price. ; 
Horfes. Thote of the faddle and carriage kind ftill fetch tolerable prices. In Scotland, owing 
to the fearcity of hay and ftraw, they are very unfaleable. . 
Hay is rather on the decline in price; in St. James’s Market, it averages 106s, 
Siraw of the beft quality is rather high, 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
MP HE Barometer and Thermometer made ufe of, are conftructed by Jones, oF Holborn ‘ . 
the Thermometer (Farenheit’s) in the open air, is fixed toa wooden building that looks 
to the eaft, and is never affected by the fun’s rays. The Barometer will in future be kept on 
an airy ftaircafe, facing the N. N. E. The obfervations are taken about feven or eight in the 
_ Morning ; again about two o’clock at noon; which, in general, is the warmeft part of the day, 
-and at nine in the evening, which is an hour more fuitable to regularity with the obferyer thay 
any other pesiod, theugh it will not thew the greateft degree of cold in the 24 hours. 
Obfervations on the State of the Weather, from the 25th of Fanuary ta the 24th of 
9 Febryary, inclufive, 1801, two miles.N.W. of St. Pauls, “= 
Barometer, _ Thermometer. ! 
Higheft 30 Higheft 57°. 4th inftant, wind S. ~ 
Lowelt 29.04 24°. or 8°. be~ Atniné o’clock 
; Frown nine o'élock: toe Lowel} low the texing ¢ in the eveningon 
Greateft evening on the 234, to the aie the asth of Jan. » 
¥ariationin< 4°. fame hour on the 24th, the At eighto’clock in the 
34 hours. quickfilver rofe from 29.16, Createh morning on the 7th, the 
to 29-56, DN i : 17°, J Thermometer ftood at 
oe 47°. and at the fame 
24 hours. hour the next morning i€ 
had fallen to 30°. 
The weather this month, with regard to the temperature of the atmofphere, has been very 
variable. The very fevere froft on the. 25th ult. was fucceeded by twelve mild days, during- 
which the mercury ftood more than once fomething higher than temperate, though the changes: - 
in twenty-four hours were frequently confiderable. ‘In the morning of the eighth inftant, the 
mercury {food two degrees below the freezing peint, and from the roth. to the 19th, we had 
pretty fevere froft, during which I twice faw the mercury feven degrees below the, freezing 
point. The wind during thefe days was moftly to the eaft, ornorth-eaft. The reft of the month 
it-has generally been weiterly, or between the S. and W. points. ; fe 
During this month we have -had fix or feven very bright fair days; rain or fnow, in {mall 
quantities has fallen on fifteen other days, and the reft of the month has, in general, been cloudy 
hazy weather. On the 23d inftant, about dufk, a feyere, but partial fhower of pretty large hails 
ftones fell in feyeral parts near the metropolis. | : . 
a e eye Booxjeilers, Gc. in America, who wifh to be regularly fupplied with the. 
anny Niagozime, may addrefs themfelyes to Mefrs. Swords, of New-Vork, 
er to Mr. TOwnLey, at Bofog, 
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