- The happy schoolboy brings transported forth
His long-forgotten scourge, and giddy gig:
O'er the white paths he whirls the rolling hoop,
Or triumphs in the dusty fields of taw.
- Not so the museful sage: abroad he walks
Contemplative, if haply he may find
What cause controls the tempest's rage, or whence
Amidst the savage season winter smiles.
- For days, for weeks, prevails the placid calm.
At length some drops prelude a change: the sun
With ray refracted bursts the parting gloom;
When all the chequer'd sky is one bright glare.
- Mutters the wind at eve: th' horizon round
With angry aspect scowls: down rush the showers,
And float the delug'd paths, and miry fields.
SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER.
MEASURE OF RAIN IN INCHES AND HUNDREDS.
| Year. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1782. | 4'64 | 1'98 | 6'54 | 4'57 | 6'34 | 1'75 | 7'09 | 8'28 | 3'72 | 1'93 | 2'51 | 0'91 | 50'26 |
| 1783. | 4'43 | 5'54 | 2'l6 | 0'88 | 2'84 | 2'82 | 1'45 | 2'21 | 5'52 | 1'71 | 3'01 | 1'10 | 33'71 |
| 1784. | 3'18 | 0'77 | 3'82 | 3'92 | 1'52 | 3'65 | 2'40 | 3'88 | 2'51 | 0'39 | 4'70 | 3'06 | 33'80 |
| 1785 | 2'84 | 1'80 | 0'30 | 0'17 | 0'60 | 1'39 | 3'80 | 3'21 | 5'94 | 5'21 | 2'27 | 4' 2 | 31'55 |
| 1786 | 6'91 | 1'42 | 1'62 | 1'81 | 2'40 | 1'20 | 1'99 | 4'34 | 4'79 | 5' 4 | 4'38 | ―― | ―― |
| 1787. | 0'88 | 3'67 | 4'28 | 0'74 | 2'60 | 1'50 | 6'53 | 0'83 | 1'56 | 5' 4 | 4' 9 | 5' 6 | 36'24 |
| 1788. | 1'60 | 3'37 | 1'31 | 0'61 | 0'76 | 1'27 | 3'58 | 3'22 | 5'71 | 0' 0 | 0'86 | 0'23 | 22'50 |
| 1789. | 4'48 | 4'11 | 2'47 | 1'81 | 4' 5 | 4'24 | 3'69 | 0'99 | 2'82 | 5' 4 | 3'67 | 4'62 | 42'― |
| 1790. | 1'99 | 0'49 | 0'45 | 3'64 | 4'38 | 0'13 | 3'24 | 2'30 | 0'66 | 2'10 | 6'95 | 5'94 | 32'27 |
| 1791. | 6'73 | 4'64 | 4'59 | 1'13 | 1'33 | 0'91 | 5'56 | 1'73 | 1'73 | 6'49 | 8'16 | 4'93 | 44'93 |
| 1792. | 6'7 | 1'68 | 6'70 | 4'08 | 3'00 | 2'78 | 5'16 | 4'25 | 5'53 | 5'55 | 1'65 | 2'11 | 48'56 |
| 1793. | 3'71 | 2'32 | 2'33 | 3'19 | 1'21 |
1768 begins with a fortnight's frost and snow; rainy during February. Cold and wet spring; wet season from the beginning of June to the end of harvest. Latter end of September foggy without rain. All October and the first part of November rainy, and thence to the end of the year alternate rains and frosts.
1769. January and February, frosty and rainy, with gleams of
