136 Occasional Meteorological Remarks and Observations, 



January 15th. — A set of complete hourly observations made 

 this day were formerly transmitted to Dr Brewster. — [See Ta- 

 ble I., p. 140.] 



Jan. 18th. — On this and some following days a very severe 

 frost occurred, such as would have been considered so even in 

 Britain, as the register, p. 135, shows. On this day, at 10i a., the 

 thermometer was at 26.5, which was the minimum I observed. 



February 21st. — This was a curious example of variable 

 weather in such a climate as Rome is generally supposed to en- 

 joy. After heavy rain through the night, the morning, though 

 rather cloudy, was fair, and bore much appearance of a fine 

 day. It grew worse'till about noon (that period which here, 



