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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1791, Vol. 61: Part II
Yellow crowfoot in lbloom upon the paftures. Grafs at a ftaud, for want ot' rain and dewa - 4. Green peas in the market; new potatoes rid. Per lh.-5. Fox-gloves in bloom. -7. A field of clover cutting for hay. Honey-fuckle in bloom.-8. The outward air cooled and refrefhed by the rain of the preceding night. Sultry within doora - t t. The air extremely piercing and cold; a violent hail-fioqn atnight.-13. The air {till cold; the fee roars; black clouds in the Weft, and as if hlled with (now. Several fields mown. Gris, both in the meadows and pa?um, begins to bum-u. Lee upon the water. Much damage done by Iaft night's frofi amoogit fruit. Potatoes, &c.-t 5.field-beansin bloom, and eogly {cent the air. Apples drop ofiz - tfi. Bufy houftng hay. Wheat and barley mthe ear. Cuckoo (pit eicadnla) upon many plants - x7. Gathered (hawben'ies, very poor and Imall, the leaves and em: being thnveled up by the late aom - zo. Many people begun hay-harvefi. Swal. Lows and martini in abundance. Hawking over the new-mown grafs, and (a low and near to the mowers as only, by great dexterity, by quick turns, to word ftriking their perfons. (lu. 1: it accident or infiinet that directs the birds to feel; their prey in thefe places? Fall of ram this month, 640015 of an inch; evaporation, -roths.
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