August, exceeding hot | August, not very hot; and dry. One plentiful | much drier than the medium. rain. | | September, till the middle, | September, variable; very hot. More hot | 10 to 14 inclusive, uncommonly weather than in any summer. | hot; several Middle, a violent | other days uncommonly north-east storm, with a | cool. Upon the whole, great deal of rain. | the summer rather cool | than hot. The hottest | weather was in the middle | of May. No great | rains; but rather more | than the medium. | October, a pretty deal | October, a great deal of cold weather. | of cold weather. Thunder-showers 23, a great deal of rain, | on the 13th with the S. wind. | and 17th. Snow on the 25, at night a hard frost. | 20th, 25th, 29th, & 30th. 26, Winterish weather, | But the quantity of rain and a little snow. | and snow in the whole 28, Cold. Wind N.W. | month less than the medium. 29, Cold. Little wind | at N.W. Evening quite | calm, and a clear sky. | November began with cold and wet, there falling, in the eleven first days 3,404 inches of rain; and on the 11th in the morning there was thunder and lightning with the rain; and at a quarter past two in the afternoon, the barometer was at 29,46; which was lower than it had been since the 15th of October. From thence, till the day of the earthquake, my diary stands thus: November 1755.