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16th, and swallows had disappeared. Nothing in the shape of frost occur- 

 ring, and the soil being tolerably moist, the leaves of forest trees did not 

 begin to drop till near the end of the month, by which time late varieties 

 of pears and apples were taken down. 



November. A considerable quantity of rain fell in the course of this 

 month, but the temperature was unusually high for the season. On the 

 20th a loud gale of wind blew from the west, and slighter gales from the 

 same quarter occurred on the 24th and 26th. The laurustinuses began to 

 open some blossoms on the 12th. Wheat that had been sown on the 29th 

 of last month gave a braird on the 1 7th, a period of nineteen days. Mean 

 temperature during that period 44°. 



December. The characteristics of the v/eather, throughout this month, 

 were nearly the same as in November, and the temperature fully higher : 

 for the temperature, fall of rain, &c., for each month, I must beg to refer 

 to the table extracted from the register kept at this place. The Christmas 

 rose was in flower by the 20th. The sweet-scented coltsfoot showed 

 some flowers by the 25th. The thrush, blackbird, and robin redbreast sang 

 regularly from the middle of the month. The year concluded with a 

 violent thunder-storm, seldom surpassed in the summer months by loudness, 

 and never equalled by the vividness and luminosity of the flashes of light- 

 ning with which it was accompanied. This formed a precursor of a change 

 of weather, and frost set in with the first hours of the new year. — A. Gorrk, 

 Annat Gardens. Feb. 11. 1829. 



IRELAND. 



Exti'acts from a MeieorologicalJournal kept near the town of Kilkenny, 

 during 1828. Latitude 52° 35', W. longitude 7° 25'; about forty miles, 

 from the eastern coast, and 500 feet above the level of the sea. The soil 

 light, deep, and gravelly ; the subsoil a gravelly loam. The thermometer 

 observations taken at 1 P.M., and hung about four feet from the ground 

 in the angle connecting a north-east and north-west wall. 



March. Maximum degree of heat taken at 1 P. M. in the shade on the 

 14th, wind south, 61°; minimum at 1 P.M. on the 27th; wind north- 

 west, 45^; mean heat at 1 P.M., 51°. Days rainy 5, fair 15, hail 1, hoar 

 frost 2 ; wind east and north-east 3, south 5, west 7, and north 3. Anemones 

 appeared in blow on the 14th, standard Orleans plum on the 15th, pear 

 trees on a southern aspect on the 16th, /beris sempervirens on the 27th, 

 TroUius asiaticus on the 28th, *S'axlfraga crassifolia on the 29th. The total 

 absence of fro?t during the preceding winter, and mildness of the season, 

 hitherto, has brought it considerably in advance of its usual stage at this 

 period. 



April. Majcimum degree of heat, taken as before, on the 27th, wind 

 south-west, 6Q° ; minimum on the 8th, wind north-east, 43° ; mean tempe- 

 rature at 1 P.M. SS"^ 25^; rain 12 days, hail 2, fair 16; wind east 2 days, 

 south 2, south-west 4, west 4, north-west 5, north 9, and north-east 4. 

 Pear trees in blow on the 2d, Sanguinaria canadensis on the 3d, /Vis ger- 

 manica on the 8th, Pyrus spectabilis on the 17th, ieucojum aestivum on 

 the -18th. Harsh northerly winds in the latter part of the month, inju- 

 rious to the early bloom of fruit-trees ; but, on the whole, the prospect is 

 promising. 



May. Maximum of heat in the shade on the 30th, wind south-west, 

 68°; minimum on the 17 th, wind north, 55°; mean temperature, 58°. 

 Maximum of radiation from the sun influenced by reflection, the thermo- 

 meter four feet from the ground, on the 19th, wind east, 71°; mean tem- 

 perature of sun heat 65° 3' at 1 P.M., exceeding the temperature in the 

 shade on the 18th. Heat of the earth, at the foot of a southern-aspected 

 wall 1 foot deep, 57°, 2 feet deep, 55°; 1 foot deep, at the foot of a north^rn^ 

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