OBSERVATIONS. 61 



same interval, having ipoved from 40® to 52^.5, 

 where it remained till the storm began to abate. 

 Between 2 and 3h. a.m. on the 4th, the wind, 

 which had previously changed to the W., blew 

 with its greatest violence, and continued very 

 boisterous till noon ; nevertheless, the barometer 

 began to rise about Ih. 15m. a.m., and, at lOh. 

 P.M., when the thermometer was at 39*^,5, had 

 got up to 29.20. 



The barometer, on the 14th of February, 

 1824, went regularly up from 28.07 to 29.10. 

 The wind was N. E., and in the afternoon it 

 blew very hard. 



Again there was a strong gale from the N.E. 

 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1824, dur- 

 ing which the barometer rose rapidly ; moving, 

 in the course of the day, from 28.75 to 29.58. 



-'♦A tempestuous S. wind on the 23rd of No- 

 vember, 1824, reduced the barometer from 28.64 

 to 27.82, which is the lowest observation re- 

 corded in the eight years. 



With a high wind from the N.W., the baro- 

 meter, on the 2nd of January, 1825, got up 

 from 29.30 to 29.70. 



