October 7, 1792
Posted by sydney on Oct 7th, 1792
The crop of stoneless berberries is prodigious! Among the many sorts of people that are injured by this very wet summer, the peat-cutters are great sufferers: for they have not disposed of half the peat & turf which they ave prepared; & the poor have lost their season for laying in their forest fuel. The brick-burner can get no dry heath to burn his lime, & bricks: nor can I house my cleft wood, which lies drenched in wet. The brick-burner could never get his last makings of tiles & bricks dry enough for burning the autumn thro’ so they must be destroyed, & worked up again. He had paid duty for them; but is, I understand, to be reimbursed.
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