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Perennial Calendm\ 



lOth, when the thermometer was only one degree above temperate. The 

 evaporation 0-41875 of an inch. 



September. Less rain fell than for the Isat three years in September, the 

 whole month warmer, the mean being higher than since 1 823. The baro- 

 meter higher than usual although below the mean, of the corresponding 

 month, in last year, which was remarkably high. Lunar halones, with 

 misty areas, seen on the nights of the 20th and 21st. The night of the 28th 

 was remarkably dark ; and about midnight it blew a heavy gale from the 

 south-west. The evaporation 0'33125 of an inch. 



October. Rain fell on eight days only, and so little has not fallen in this 

 place, in the month of October, for the last six years, the whole quantity 

 waa considerably less than half of that which fell in the same month, in 

 1827. The mean temperature less than since 1823, but the barometer re- 

 markably high during the month, the mean being much above those for 

 many years past. The month might be denominated very fine. The evapo- 

 ration 0*19375 of an inch. 



November. So mild, dry, and fine a November has not occurred for 

 many years. The mean temperature higher than since 1824, The mercury 

 much above the average of the month, although the mean did not reach 

 that of last November, but the quantity of rain was less than has been ob- 

 served by the journalist, during his residence at Wycombe, a period of six 

 years. The evaporation 0*0875 of an inch. 



December. The month was remarkably warm, the maximum being 

 higher than since 1819, and the mean temperature above that of any one fof 

 December in the last twelve years ; the barometer has also been very much 

 elevated, the mean being considerably higher than since 1818, and the 

 quantity of rain less, by 2Ain., than last year. Thunder heard and light- 

 ning seen on the 7th about 12 P. M. and an indistinct lunar halo observed* 

 on the night of the 19th. The evaporation 0*075 of an inch. 



SCOTLAND. 



Meteorological Table and Calendar of Nature for 1828. Extracted from 

 the Register kept at Annat Garden, Perthshire. N. Lat. 56° 35^^ ; above 

 the Level of the Sea 172 feet. 



,^ Observations. It is remarkable that the mean temperature of last season, 

 is within a very small fraction of a degree of the temperature in the ex- 



