198 Meteorological Report. hae [ Sept. Ty: 
The pea-crops, in inany diftricts, have alfo been already fecured ; but; on the drier des 
fciiptions of foil, they are probably not fo full or abundant as was expected, the great drynefs 
and heat of the weather having been unfavourable for them. 
The ravages of the black fly have, in many places, been. fo injurious to the beans as to 
reduce them to middling crops. 
The haysharveft i is moftly finifhed in the fouthern parts of the kingdom, and in thofe of 
the north it is contiderably ‘advanced. The prices of old- hay keep up.—At Whitechapel 
Market, hay 51. 5s. to 71.10s.; clover, 71. to 81. 8s.; ftraw, 11. 18s. to 2s. 68.—+At St.James’s 
Market, Aug. 21, hay 3]. 16s. to 71. 17.; ftraw, 91. 2s. to Ql. 9s; 6d. 
The want of rain has operated unfavourably for the rouens, or after crops of hay, the 
young grafies, in many places, feeming to die away by the great heat and drynefs of the 
feafou ; of courfe, except rain foon falls, there will be but very light crops. 
The “pafture lands, efpecially thole of the drier and more elevated kinds, are likewife in 
want of rain, the herbage, in many places, falling off by the drought. The low-paftures are; 
however, in a more flourithing condition. 
Turnips appear well in general, though, in fome places, rather patchy. 
Live ftock of almoft every kind, begin to be more plentiful, though the prices ftill keep 
~ high.—-Smithfield Market, Aa 93, beef 4s. to 5s.; mutton, 5s. to 5s. 6d.; veal, 4s. te 
5s. 6d.; pork, 5s. to 6s. 9d. 5 lamb, 5s. to 6s.—Newgate and Leadenhall Market, beef, 3s, 
4s. to 4s. 6d.; mutton, 4s, Gd. to 5s.; veal, 3s, 4d. to Ss. ; pork, 5s. to 6s.; lamb, 
4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d. 
Hogs are alfo more plentiful. Horfes of the good faddle-kind ftill dear. 
In jome of the cyder diftricts the fruit turns ouf more abundant than was at firft fappofed, 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
“Obfervations on the State of the Weather, from the asth of Ful; ly, to the 
24th of Sept. 1802, inclufive, two miles N. W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Higheft 30.05, Aug. 14, Wind W. Higheft 81° Aug. 9 and 17, Wind W. 
Loweft 29.55. Aug. 24, Wind S. Loweft. 43° Aug. 13, Wind N. 
In the morning Between sand 6 o’clock 
ofthe2sthofAug. | inthe morning of the 
Greate ft 128 hun- jthe mercury ftood Greateft ) 12th inft. the thermo- 
variation in +dredths of wat 29. .bS, at the ae § 17°, <<‘ meter was 603; at the " 
24 hours. ‘ an inch. fame hour onthe | 24 hours, jfame time, on the 
26th, it was fal- | . 13th, it was only at 
len 29.60 43°. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 1.211 inches in depth. 
The ftate of the atmofphere, with regard to its denfity, has been remarkably equal ; but 
ence has the variation in twenty-four hours been more rhan two-tenths of am inch, and fre~ 
quently, for feveral days together, it has neither rifen nor fallen fo much as this. 
From the 25th of July to the 2d of Auguft, the weather continued very cold for the feafon; 
and, it is worth remarking, that, from che 16th of June to the third of Auguft, the thermo- 
meter was never once fo inch as 76°, which is called fummer-heat: fince that period, how- 
_ever, a finer feries of harvett weather was never known: feven days the glafs has been as 
high, or even fomething higher, than 80, and, om eight others, it has been equal to, or be» 
yond, fummer. heat. 
It is confidently faid, that the cuckow was heardin the neighbourhood of Hampftead, at 
she commencement of the fair weather ia this month, 
On the 11th inftant, the mercury in the barometer was a little depreffed, previoufly to a 
very heavy rainin the night, after which the mercury immediately began to nfe; and early 
in the morning of the 13th, we witnefled a pretty fevere white froft. 
The wind has been chicfly in the weft; but, for feveral fucceflive days it was changeable, 
sg ipta oh courte of the fun, being in the eaft early in the morning, and changing quickly 
to the weit, by the fouth. 
With ie exception of a trifing fhower or twa, ick are fcarcely deferving of notice, 
there may be reckoned twenty-five days without rain fince the laft Report, fourteen of which 
have been very brilliant. 
We obferved more lightning on the evening of the 23d infant, than we had feen the 
whole fummer, but it was not accompanied with thunder. 
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tained tn Denou’s Splendid Travels in Egy pt Anifi the hundred and fifty interefting prints: with 
which this artif?’s book is, embellifbed, thefe repr cfentations of the P lanifph ereand Zodiac are anguefi tione 
ably the mop interefiing, we have therefor re feleched them as faitable ornaments af ibe Mon: ae Mag axines 
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