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of fruit which wasereat before, isnow véry poor. The wheats, early fpring corns, and young 
overs, (clovers fown laft fpring, 1800), have recovered fooner than could have been expected. 
On the weft fide of the ifland, the feafon has not been fo favourable, much rain having fallen 
_ there, during the high gales from W. and S. W. which has impeded their operations, Grain is 
not in plenty: fale dull; prices rather lower. isd 
Such, we are farther told, has been the unequalled finenefs of the feafon, that the cattle have 
feldom been houfed during the winter, the herbage being fo abundant, that the farmers have 
not exhaufted more than one third of an ayerage quantity of hay and fodder; vegetables for the 
ufe of man have likewife been abundant, though perhaps not fairly brought to market; any de- 
gree of rot among the fheep is unknown ; and other kinds of cattle have fed well, and been un-= 
commoiily healthy; indeed, fo genial has the feafon been towards the animal tribe, that their 
increafe is almoft unparaled; lambs are at leaft two thirds in number more than generally re=' 
€allecied, fifteen ewes in twenty having turns, &c. In faét, fuch has been the fitnefs of the feafon 
tor the-purpofes of vegetation, that the meadows, paftures, and orher grafs lands fearcely ever af- 
forded a more verdant appearance, or were fuller of grafs at fo early a period. 
From the facility of feeding all forts of live ftock, which this abundance of green food muft 
afford, the preient high prices of fat ftock cannot probably long be keptup. At Smithfield, beef 
felis from 4s. 8d. to 6s. 4d.; mutton, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 6d-; veal, from’ss. od. to 7s, 4d.; and 
pork, from 5s. $d. to 6s. 8d. In Newgate and Leadenhall markets, beef fells from 4s. to 5s, 4d. 
mutton, from 4s. 4d. to 5s-4d- veal, from 4s, 6d. to 6s. 6d. pork, from 5s. od. to 6s. 8d. and — 
Jamb, from 5s, to 7s, 
Hay is fomewhat lower in price. At St. James’s market, sl. 103. to 6].; at Whitechapel, 
Al. 1os- to 61-; clover, 61. 6s.to 61. 15s. P idee a. 
Straw. At St. James’s market 2]. 14s. 6d- to 31. 3s.; at Whitechapel, 21. 6s, to 21: 16s,\. 
Hops. The young hop vines perhaps never looked more healthy and vigorous than at prefent. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Obfervations en the State of the Weather, from the 24th of March, to the 24th of 
April, inclufive, 1801, two miles N. W. of St. Paul's. he 
wt al Hal Thermometer. ; 
SEEN er oie arch 3¥, and : : April 4. Wind N. E, 
Higheft 30° 32!) ey oy mb Wind |) ERBhel 666.9 a alten ee 
Loweft 29.19. April 7 and 8, Wind W. Loweft 31°. April-g, at eight in the morn- 
ing, Wind N. wht 3 
From the evening - , : 
of the 6th, tothe} The Mercury in the 
Greateft 4 4-tenths fame Time on the G a thermometer ftood at 
variationin J of aninch (7th of April, ‘the pe ea Phas, 
' 24 hours, ? nearly. Mercury fell ftom VaR Ra ES ; 
i ing of the 4th inftant, 
29°:57' to Zq° fig.’ 24 hours, 
and, onthe next’even- 
ing, it-was down to 39°, 
The quantity of sain fallen is equal to 562 inches of depth, the rain-gauge ftanding ele- 
ven feet from the ground. OP hgh 
Although at the ufual hour of taking our accounts of the ftate of the weather,- the 
‘Breateft variation was 150 only, in 24 hours, yet the changes which baye.taken place in the 
heat of the atmofphere, have been very confiderable during the prefent month. About 
three o’clock in the afternoon of the 4th inftant the thermometer fteod at 66°, the next 
morning at funrife it was buta little higher than the freezing point, and in the following 
night we had a fharp froft, the Mercury being 6° below the freezing point at five in the 
morning of the 6th infant. Thus we may fairly reckon that the change in the atmeofphere 
in the courfe of 36 hours, could not be lefs than az degrees. * Other confiderable “variations 
were perceived between the roth and 1sth days of this month. On the morning of the 
12th there was a confiderable fall of fnow. 
_ ‘This month has prefented us with twenty-two days without rain, of which the greater — 
number have been remarkably brilliant. From the twenty-fourth of March to the fouyth 
of Apri] inclufive every day was fine and clear, with the exception of the morning ef the 
3oth, during which fome {mall rain fell, but the barometer was rifing the whole time. 
‘The wind has chiefly blown from the eaft. ‘ete: : hat 
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