XVII. Extract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1776

The year began wet, but there soon fell a greater quantity of snow than for several years past: we had perhaps the sharpest frost since 1740, and it was more intense at the latter part of it than at the beginning. The frost went away finely the beginning of February, and without much rain till the snow was almost gone; but a good deal of the middle of February was stormy and wet, and it was chiefly wet till about ten days in March, yet not cold. Then the season grew dry; the seed-time was fine, pleasant, growing warmer, and in the middle of April hot. There was great plenty of blossoms of all sort, and the grass came on well; but the wheat, which had been left thin by the great frost and snow, was rather hurried on too fast.