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EDINBURGH—July 9.
Wheat
1st, 54s. 0d.
2d, 42s. 0d.
3d, 36s. 0d.
Barley.
1st, 0s. 0d.
2d, 0s. 0d.
3d, 0s. 0d.
Oats.
1st, 37s. 0d.
2d, 32s. 0d.
3d, 26s. 6d.
Pease & Beans.
1st, 38s. 0d.
2d, 34s. 0d.
3d, 30s. 0d.
Average of wheat, £2 : 0 : 3, per boll
HADDINGTON—July 11.
Wheat.
1st, 51s. 0d.
2d, 42s. 6d.
3d 25s. 0d.
Barley.
1st, 38s. 0d
2d, 33s. 0d.
3d 28s. 0d,
Oats.
1st, 38s. 0d.
2d, 32s. 0d.
3d, 25s. 0d.
Pease.
1st, 37s. 0d.
2d, 34s. 0d.
3d, 31s. 0d.
Beans.
1st, 37s. 0d.
2d, 34s. 0d.
3d, 31s. 0d.
Average of wheat, £1 : 16 : 1 : 2-12ths.
Note.—The boll of wheat, beans, and pease, is about 4 per cent. more than half a quarter, or 4 Winchester bushels; that of barley and oats nearly 6 Winchester bushels.
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
The common observation, that the feelings are a very fallacious test of the temperature of the weather, has been strikingly illustrated during the month of June. Nothing is to be heard in the country but comparisons between June 1817 and June 1816, and congratulations on the supposed return of summer to these northern regions, which appeared at one time to be threatened with perpetual winter. How will it surprise some, in the midst of their rejoicings, to be informed that the mean temperature of June 1817 is barely one degree and two-tenths higher than that of the same month last year; that the average of