The decade of the 1730s was one of the driest on record according to Lamb's
statistics. The Wealden water shortage of the time is mentioned in Fuller's
letters
Crossley, D.W., & Saville, R.V., The Fuller letters. Guns, slaves and
finance, 1728-1755, S.R.S., 76 (1991).
Lamb, H.H., Climate History and the Modern World, Second Edition, London and
New York: Routledge, 1995.
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