258 Mean Temperature of twenty-seven different places 



stance that a similar deposit had been observed on the 17th of 

 June in the previous year, after a shower which happened at 

 about the same time of day. — (Utica.) 



It has been often noticed by the observer, that a southeast 

 wind is followed in this section of country invariably by a 

 rain storm, within twenty-four or forty-eight hours. — (Canan- 

 daigua.) 



July 17. This morning, between six and nine oVlock, four 

 and a quarter inches of rain fell. The water poured from the 

 hills in torrents, and the country for several miles around has 

 sustained considerable damage. Fences, barns, one mill and 

 a strong stone bridge were swept away. A man was drowned 

 during the shower in a brook, which the day previous he 

 might have leaped across. — (Fairfield.) 



July 23. The rain last night has raised the streams and 

 done much damage. The Onondaga creek, it is said, has not 

 been so high in twenty years, at this season of the year. — (On- 

 ondaga.) 



August 14. This day, two and a half inches of rain fell be- 

 tween 3 and 11 p. m. It occasioned the most sudden and vio- 

 lent overflowings of the springs and streams ever witnessed by 

 the oldest inhabitants. — (Onondaga.) 



Oct. 16. It is to be noted as remarkable, that we have had 

 two inches of snow before the appearance of frost. — (Ononda- 

 ga-) 



Oct. 13. Dark day. Wind S. W. The atmosphere was 

 filled with smoke, which, with intervening clouds, intercepted 

 the sun's light to such a degree as to require the use of candles 

 several times during the day. The water which fell in the af- 

 ternoon and evening was so much affected by the smoke as to 

 be bitter to the taste. — (St Lawrence.) Windy, with remark- 

 able dense smoke, which at intervals caused a darkness that 

 almost rendered candles necessary at noonday. — (Middlcbury.) 

 It was necessary to light candles at 3 p. m. to read and write. 

 Some thunder and lightning. — (Auburn.) Uncommon dark- 

 ness at 4 p. M. — (Franklin.) 



River Hudson. The ice in the Hudson broke up Jan. 1.— 

 (Hudson.) Jan. 3. — (Lansingburgh.) Jan. 4.— (Albany.) 



