Contrast
... While farmers in the south by the end of August were gazing with some complacency at fields already ploughed after corn, many of their brethren in the north were looking in despair at fields of oats beaten into pools of water. This picture of floods is from Lyth, West morland, where the oat crops have indeed been in a sad mess. Rain there fell on 24 days in August. Below is a happier scene ...