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for two or three days, about the end of the month, it veered to the eaftward. There was 
fome rain from the 27th to the 29th. 
In confequence of the cold and bdlighting winds at the beginning of the month, all the 
hedges and trees, of almoft every defcription, have been much injured in their foliage. 
This nas been the cafe more particularly in the neighbourhood of the fea coafts; and I have. 
myfelf obferved it in the four counties of Hampfhire, Dorfethhire, Devonfhire, and Cornwall. 
Perfons who have been in the Ifle of Wight, inform me that the fame is obfervable alfo 
there. It is remarkable that only the fouth and fouth-weft, or the more expofed fides of 
the foliage have materially fuftered; but on thefe the leaves are all crufhed up and brown, 
as if they had been burnt. 
The cockchafets, which, before the commencement of the fevere weather, were {warming 
in thoufands on the oaks, willows, and hawthorn, have been abmoft entirely either driven 
away or deftroyed 1am inclined to think that the greater part of them, at leaft, have 
been deftroyed, and their dead bodies eaten, by the various fpecies of infectivorous birds. 
Many were drowned in the fea. : s 
June 8th. The following shrubs are in flower in the hedges and thickets: Elder (sambucus 
nigra), wild Gueluer rote (wiburnum opulus), dogberry tree (cormus fanguinea), common 
{pindle tree (ewonymus Europeus), dog’s rofe (rofa canina), white-flowered dog’s rofe (ro/z 
arwenfis), burnet role (raja /pinofiffima), privet, and hawthorn.—The hop plants are likewile 
in flower, and the rea berricd briony (bryonia dioica), and black briony (tamus communis). 
The berries of the floe thorn, bulltace-treey and buck thorn (rbamnus catbarticus), are 
formed.) ee 
June roth. The hay harveft has commenced. 
The goat fuckers are arrived, and are heard to make their fingular whizzing noife almoft 
every evening. | ; 
Glow-worms are feen in the bedge-bottoms, and upon the heaths, but hitherto not in. 
great numbers.— The cuckoo-fpit infe&, the larva of cicada {pumaria, appears. 
The ftar ough (tremetia noffoc), is found in the meadows and paftures. 
Jone roth. Wood ftrawberries are ripe. The harebeli ( feilla nutans), is ftillin flower, 
The orange-tip butterflics (fapilio cardamines), {till continue to fly about. 
une 2ift. Stag-beetles (/ucanus cervus) appear, and in fomewhat greater numbers than 
I have ufually feea them. I am now perfectly fatisfied that Mr. Marfham’s /ucanus cervus, 
and inermis, are the fame {pecies, of which the former is the male, and the latter the female. 
Wheat is in flower. 
Partridges.are heard calling to each other almoft every evening. 
Jone 23d. A great quantity of mackrel were caught in the feine nets. 
‘Tbe cuckoo b-gins to fttammer. 
June 29th. The bramble ts in flower 5 and barley in the ear. 
June 30th. Very few fa:mon have hitherto been caught this feafon. 
White mullet come in fh vals, into the harbours. ) 
For feveral days paft the mackrel fifhermen have been very fuccefsful, but more parti- 
cularly fince the 2th. The quantity of thefe fith on our fhores promifes to compenfate 
very amply for the laft and the preceding unfuccefsful feafons. Iam informed that the men 
who labour at the nets, have cleared, in the courfe of the prefent week, as their fhare of 
the money produced by the fale of the fith, upwards of fix guineas each, 
Hampshire. 
fe se GRR BC TF 
MET EOROLO GICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of June, to the 24th 
of July, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highest, 30.03. June 25, Wind N, E, Higheft, 73°. July 14, 15, 19, Wind West. 
‘Lowest, 29.15. July 4, Wind W. Lowest, 48. July 9th Wind North. 
mometer was as high 
as 72%. and on the 9th 
18°. < it was no higher than 
54°, during the whole 
day. 
“A variation of 
s wo or three de- . 
Greatest i ee has been no Greatest 
Sno Nene hae aa variation in 
variation in , ticed feveral times ae 
94 hours in the month. ar ye 
( On the 8th the ther- 
- The quantity of rain fallen fince our laft report of it, is equal to 7.6 in depth. 
July, as is generally the cafe in this country, has been wet between the 1ft and the roth. 
The greater part of the rain juft mentioned has fallen fince the roth, or during the iaft 
_ fortnight. It has been generally fair; the weather has however been cold for the feafon, 
and the wind very much in the north and north catt points, The average height of the 
Ae _ thermometer 
