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tities of oak pofíts and rails are annually brought out of the woodlands of the Weald of Kent, for the repairs of the fences,

SECT. III— Climate.

THE proximity to the German Ocean and Britiſh Channel, renders this county very ſubje& to cold ſea- winds, which often, near the ſhore in the ſpring of the year, injure the tender ſhoots of corn and herbage of every kind; eſpecially when, after a few days of fine warm weather, a north-eaſt wind ſucceeds,

The prevailing winds of this county are, north-eaſt and ſouth-weſt, When the former ſets in and continucs for any length of time, which is often the caſe in Winter, a ſevere froſt is always the conſequence z; the air is then exceedingly keen and ſharp; ponds are frozen to the depth of ten or twelve inches; and turnips are deſtroyed, The ſouth-weſt part of the county 1s more incloſed; and, being under ſhelter of the ridge of hills running from Folkſtone-hill to Wrotham,&c. is ſomewhat warmer às to climate; but the ſoil in this part being much of it a cold moift clay, the harveft is later than in thoſe Parts of the county which are more expoſed to the winds before mentioned,

The efffed of the climate on Agriculture will perhaps be beſt ſhown, by ſtating the time when the wheat har- veſt commences z which, in the moſt early parts of the county(viz. the Iſles of Shepey and Rance IS 02 very forward harveſt, by the 2oth of July, and in general in the laſt week of that month; 1n Eaſt Kent, between Canterbury and Dover, about fix or ſeven days later, ac- cording to ſoil and ſituation; and fill later, by ten or twelve days, on the cold hills which run through the

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