37S Mr Marshall's Meteorological Observations 



The preceding numbers will enable any person to find the positions of 

 the planets, to lay them down upon a celestial globe, and to determine their 

 times of rising and setting. 



Art. XXXII. — Summary of Meteorological Observations made at Kendal 

 in December 1828, and January and. February 1829. By Mr Samuel 

 Marshall. Communicated by the Author. 

 State of the Bathometer y Thermometer, &;c. in Kendal for December 1828. 



Barometer. Inches. 



Maximum on the 14th, ... 30.27 



Minimum on the 7th, ... - 28,99 



Mean height, - - - . 29.64 



Thermometer. 

 Maximum on the 13th and 14th, ... 52.5° 



Minimum on the 9th, - - - - ' 31° 



Mean height, ... - . 44.20* 



Quantity of rain, 9.226 inches. 

 Number of rainy days, 25. 

 Prevalent wind, west. 

 In this month, as in the last, there have been but two nights of frost, 

 the thermometer never having been, but in those instances, at or below the 

 freezing point. It is rarely found that the mean temperature of Decem- 

 ber is upwards of 41°. A greater quantity of rain has fallen in this month 

 than in any preceding one in the year, and yet, though the weather has 

 been with little variation rainy, the barometer has varied less than is often 

 the case when the weather is more variable. The wind has been in the 

 west for 17 days, and rain has generally accompanied it. For the rest of 

 the month winds have prevailed from the S.W. and S. excepting one day. 



