152 Mean JResuUs of the Thermometer at Ancaater, 



Abstract of Mean Besults from a Begister of the Thermometer, 

 Barometer, and state of the iVeather, kept at Ancaster, Up- 

 per Canada, seven miles from the Western extremity of Lake 

 Ontario, and about 500 feet above its level. By William 

 Craigie, Esq., Surgeon. Communicated by the Author. 



The thermometers are in a northern aspect six feet above 

 the surfiice of the ground, shaded from the effects of direct 

 insolation or radiation to the sky, and indicate the tempera- 

 ture of the stratum of air at that elevation ; their height and 

 that of the barometer was noted and registered daily at 

 9 o^clock A.M. and 9 p.m., and for the first four years the daily 

 maximum and minimum of temperature were noted and in- 

 cluded in the mean temperature. During the last two years 

 only the monthly maximum and minimum are noted. 



* Such accurate registers must be interesting from any country, but nic?ro 

 especially so from one where there are now so many of our countrymen, 

 and towards which many more are at present directing their views. On 

 looking at the splendid summer indicated by these abstracts, and the re- 

 gular distribution of rain through the months, we cannot avoid the conclu- 

 sion, that, taking into tlie account, also, the known fertility of the soil. 

 Upper Canada is, of all the British colonies, the one where our agriculturists 

 of moderate capital will find scope for their exertions in a region most 

 nearly resembling our native country in its appropriate productions and 

 rural industry. The winter is no doubt colder than ours ; but Mr Craigie 

 in his letter to me accompanying the abstracts, says of it, " You can have 

 Vui a very faini idea; particularly of our winter, which generally for tbt««i 



