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the 24th inst., its minimum at this time was 29 inches, but then it 

 fell to 28 inches, a depression seldom experienced in this climate. 

 The wind on this was certainly more tempestuous than on the former 

 occasion, but not of so long duration ; it blew from the SW. — A 

 larger quantity of rain has fallen this month than in an equal space 

 of time for many preceding years. — The former part of the month 

 was cold, the thermometer showing 28° ; the middle and latter parts 

 of it have been very mild. 



February 1838. 

 Meteorological Register by Mr. Hocking at Penzance. 



Chistvick. — Feb. 1. Cold dry haze. 2. Clear and cold. 3—6. Frosty. 

 7. Thawing: rain at night. 8. Cloudy: rain. 9. Stormy with rain. 

 10. Frosty : overcast. 11 — 14. Frosty. 15, 16. Bleak and cold. 



17. Snowing. 18. Hazy : thawing. 19. Hazy. 20. Clear and frosty: 

 fine. 21, 22. Hazy. 23. Foggy: rain. 24. Heavy rain. 25. Cloudy, 

 and fine : stormy, with rain, at night. 26. Hazy : stormy and wet. 



27. Hazy : rain. 28. Fine : rain at night. — ^The barometer was very 



low on the 9th ; and a depression so great and continued as that observed 

 towards the end of the month, is of very rare occurrence. 



Boston. — Feb. 1. Snow. 2. Cloudy. 3. Cloudy : snow p.m. 4, 5. Fine. 

 6. Cloudy. 7. Rain. 8. Cloudy. 9. Rain : rain early a.m. : snow 



r.M. 10 — 15. Fine. 16. Stormy. 17. Stormy: snow a.m. and p.m. 

 18, 19. Cloudy. 20. Fine. 21, 22. Cloudy. 23. Cloudy: snow p.m. 

 24. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 25. Fine. 26. Stormy : snow 

 P.M. 27. Cloudy : snow p.m. 28. Rain. 



