WINTER 1879-80 UPON TEEES AND SHRUBS. 



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the night of the greatest cold, yet the fluctuations were so great 

 and so erratic, within the space of a few hours even during that 

 severe week, that probably it is not altogether to that one night's 

 frost that must be attributed all the mischief done to trees and 

 shrubs, but partly also to the sliarp alternations, both prior and 

 subsequently, which acompanied it. 



These violent fluctuations or vibrations in the temperature will 

 be best illustrated by the figures returned by one of the corres- 

 pondents at Clovenfords station, at the respective dates as given 



below : — 



At Altitude. 



On Monday, December 1, snow fell to a depth of 8^ inches at night. 



12° of frost. 

 20° 



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5 A.M., , 



daybreak, 

 noon, 

 darkening, 

 7 P.M., . 

 10 P.M., . 

 midnight, 

 at 3 A.M., . 



4 A.M., . 



6 A.M., . 



daybreak, 

 10 A.M., . 

 noon, 

 darkening, 



6 P.M., . 



9 P.M., . 



midnight, 

 at 3 A.M., . 



5 A.M., . 

 daybreak, 

 9 A.M., . 

 noon, 

 darkening, 



7 P.M., . 

 9 P.M., . 

 ini(hiig1it, 



31" 

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4° 



10° 

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 28° 

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 46° 

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 50° 

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 30° 

 40° 

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 39° 

 33° 

 21° 

 15° 

 18° 

 14° 

 10° 



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 22° 

 30° 

 24° 

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 22° 

 24° 

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and 5 inches, 

 .-now fell. 



and sno^\''- 



