Gents Mag 1754 p.571

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1754 p.571
weather   Cumberland
	Cumberland Weather Extract of a Letter from Cumberland, dated Dec. 10. OUR weather here has been remarkable inconstant: Frosts and snow before Christmas are phenomena unknown to the plains of Cumberland, tho' no county has more of them, nor of longer duration, than the mountains. The snow covered our hills in October, and by degrees approached our plains, so that about the 30th it cover'd the surface near an inch, but immmediately dissolved, and produced great land floods. The thermometer, which never had fallen below 40, on the 29th of November fell to 30, but at noon rose to 36; on Monday, Dec. 2, it was at 40 in the morning, and 44 at noon, and has continued from 36 to 49, where it is now at noon of Dec. 10. The rains are heavy, the floods all out, and just now there is the appearance of a frost again. In the night of Wednesday, Dec. 4, it thundered and lightened very much: We have had wet weather ever since; and last night from eleven to one in the morning, it thundered and lightened again with great violance; an accident the more remarkable, as in this county thunder and lightening, even in summer, are very rare. Our epidemic distempers have been a swelling of the gums and jaws, inflamations of the tonsills, rigid contractions of the mastoid muscle, so as to render mastication extremely painful, and quinseys: It has no where proved fatal, but has submitted to the usual remedies for a cold. My thermometer is within doors, in a chamber over the back parlour, where a fire is very seldom made, and the wall faces the south east; from the whole of my observations, compared with yours, I am persuaded you are always colder at London in winter than we. I am, Sir, yours, &c. G. SMITH. P.S. It has lightened again all this night, with excessive rains, thunder far west; thermometer this morning at 44, an unsettled sky, wind, &c,
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