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shorn in March. The river Bann abounds in salmon, trout, and eels : the 

 latter come down from Lough Neagh in immense multitudes, choosing the 

 darkest and most tempestuous nights : rolling themselves up in balls, they 

 break through weirs and other obstacles, if not broken by the poles of the 

 fishermen. I will add, in conclusion, that the remarks (Vol. III. p. 538.) 

 upon the winter of 1829-30, &c., by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, at Swaff- 

 ham Bulbeck, in Cambridgeshire, would almost describe the weather here. 

 The chief difference was, that it was some days after the severe weather 

 came on there before it arrived here. There was remarkably warm and 

 beautiful weather the last week of March, 1830 ; and during the first week 

 of April, 1830, there was no snow or sleet here, but keen north and north- 

 east wind. The weather here, however, as there, soon became seasonable 

 again. The late summer and harvest of 1830 were excessively wet and 

 stormy here. October was very fine ; nothing remarkable in November, 

 till the morning of the 20th, when there came on a most tremendous hurri- 

 cane from the south. The snow was eight or nine inches deep from the 

 22d of December to the end of the same. Sir, yours, &c.'—H. iV. 

 June, 1831. 



Art. in. MontJdy Calendar of Nature for Scotland. 



Extracts from the Meteorological Register kept at Annat Gardens, Perth- 

 shire, N. lat. 56° 231', above the Level of the Sea 172 Ft., and 15 Miles 

 from the Coast; being the Mean of daily Observations at 10 o' Clock 

 Morning and 10 o' Clock Evening. 



Results for June. 



The temperature for June, this season, is 1-5° above the ordinary average 

 for that month ; the depth of rain is 0*3 in, above the ordinary fall in June, 

 but 1 in. less than fell in the corresponding month last year. 



Results for July. 



The temperature for July is 1-3° higher than on an ordinary average, but 

 the fall of rain has been 2 in. less than the average fall in July. The air 



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