at PUt-To7^n, New South Wales. 



VI. Register of the Thermometer, ofi I2th January I82^y at Pitt'Town, 

 New South Wales; being a fair average midsummer day, covered 

 ivith dense immoveable clouds, the sun not appearing all the day. 



This day was as remarkable for steady, undeviating, low temperature, as the 

 preceding days were for unsteady fluctuating variations. 



6*» A. M. 71° Cloudy, cool. No crickets; seldom heard till the thermome- 

 ter is above 74" ; yesterday crickets and grasshoppers flying 

 about in all directions, to-dav not one to be seen. 



7 

 11 



2 



4 



5 



6 71 Range from 6 to 2, or eight hours, = 3"* ; from 2 to 6 p. m. 



or four hours, — 3°. 



VII. Register of the Thermometer at Pitt- Town, New South Wales, on 

 the 18//i of January 1827, being a fair average day ; cool in the 

 inornhig, glowing hot at mid-day, with a strong gale, and followed 

 by a severe thunder gust, and cool calm evening. * 



Mild, pleasant; cloudy ; rose gradually to 12 p. m. 



Cool, wind howling, clouds dark. 



Greatly overcast, threatens thunder. 



First peal heard distant. 



Rain in large drops. 



Rain very heavy, wind strong. 



Severe squall, thunder loud and high. 



Squall at its worst, heavy rain. 



Wind abating. 



Squall nearly over. 



Calm, with clouds. 



Steady till this ; fresh squall commencing. 



Very severe thunder storm, squall from NE. 



Gale abating ; continued steady till 7 p- m. 



VIII. Register of the Thermometer at Pitt- Town, 2lst January 1827, 

 being a fair average day, with light hazy clouds over the whole 

 sky, painful scorching heat, and a strong hot gale from the sun, 

 and going round from E. to W. by N. during the day. 



6 A. 



7 30 

 8 



9 10 



73° 



74 



744 



824 



Cloudy; clouds about 11 break away, and heat gradually in- 

 creased till 2 o*clock. 



