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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art, I. Natural History in Foreign Countries, 



ITALY. 



Weather at Pisa. — Last year I sent you a summary ef my memoranda 

 on the weather at Florence for the winter of 1829-30; and, having. kept 

 a similar rough and imperfect register at Pisa for the winter just passed, I 

 have transcribed its results, which it may interest some of your readers to 

 compare with their English meteorological journals, adding, as before, a 

 few observations under different heads. My departure for Rome and 

 Naples in a few days prevents my remarks extending farther than the 

 month of February ; but, as the winter might be considered ended on the 

 1st of that month, this incompleteness is of less moment. 



Nov. 

 183Q. 



Dec. 



Jan. 

 1831. 



Feb. 



Mean height of thennometer at 8 a. at. . ^ . 



Highest point * . 



Lowest 



Days'of bright sunshine ....... 



' partially 5unny 



cloudy, but fair 



rainy 



Wind, north ... number of days 

 north-east . . . . .^ . . 



east 



south-east 



south ........ 



south-west ....... 



west 



north-west 



50° 

 (10.) 62,0 

 (28.) 42° 



12 



5 

 10 



3 



450 

 (1.) 540 

 (23.) 3QO 



4 

 5 



2 

 20 



■400 

 (1.) 510 

 (28.) 280 



11 

 4 

 9 



7 



1 

 6 

 8 

 4 



430 

 (28.) 540 

 (1.) 30° 



17 



1 

 7 

 3 



2 

 3 



Frost. With the exception of occasional hoar frosts, especially from 

 the 12th to the 15th of January, the only period of frost was for six days, 

 from the 27th of January to the 1st of February, when the ice on ditches 

 was f in. thick. This short frost did no injury to the great numbers of 

 unprotected orange and lemon trees trained against the walls of gardens at 

 Pisa, and laden with fruit. No snow fell the whole winter. The higher 

 range of the Apennines acquired its cap about the 1st of November. 



Rain. Vast quantities of rain, so as to keep the Arno almost constantly 

 full to the level of its banks, fell during the month of December ; in which 

 there were twenty rainy days, and only four of bright sunshine. During 

 the prevalence of rainy weather, and indeed at other times, the air is much 

 more moist at Pisa than at Florence, judging from the far more copious 

 Condensation after cool nights on the interior of windows, which is often as 



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