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quantity of rain is trifling. The last five days of the month haye been re- 

 markably mild and genial to vegetation, and the beginning of the month 

 was equally so. The swallow made its appearance above a fortnight ear- 

 lier this year than the last. It was seen on the 5th. 



State of the Barometer, &;c, at Kendal for May 1827. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 21st, - - - 29.94 



Minimum on the 25th, - - - 29.10 



Mean Height, - - - 29.56 



Thermometer. 

 Maximum on the 21st, - - - 69 



Minimum on the 7th, - - - 32° 



Mean Height, - - - 62.87' 



Quantity of Rain, 3.483 inches. 

 Number of rainy days, 1 5. 

 Prevalent wind, W. 



The beginning of this month was marked by dry and cold E. and N. E. 

 winds, prevailing mostly till the 19th. The wind from the N. E. is per- 

 haps the only periodical wind which we have in our island, and which 

 sometimes prevails from the middle of April to the middle of May, though 

 seldom so long. A very plausible hypothesis to account for this pheno- 

 menon might be adduced. In the present month the prevalence of this 

 wind exceeded its usual limit. Since the 19th the air has been generally 

 humid, and soft genial showers have promoted vegetation to an extent 

 most cheering to the agriculturist. Though the thermometer was never 

 but once so low as the freezing point, yet the winds from the E. and N. E. 

 checked the progress of vegetation very materially during their continu- 

 ance. The range of the barometer has been trifling, amounting to .84 of 

 an inch. The rain has generally fallen in slight showers, (and excepting 

 .056 of an inch,) after the 16th, the greatest quantity taken at one time 

 fell on the 28th, which amounted to .868 of an inch. 



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