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the balance of the month. On the eighteenth the storm manifested a 

 barometrical phenomena, by the low pressure given by the instrument, 

 recording at 11 o'clock p. m. 29.26, lowest ever observed in Oakland. At 

 this time a furious gale was blowing from the south, and raining very hard. 

 A peculiar atmospheric roaring accompanied the storm. The succeeding 

 storms were very severe, and lasted until the twenty-sixth of the month; 

 rainfall, 8.12 inches. 



February. — The month was clear cold: pleasant, with an occasional 

 frosty morning. 



March. — Showed no great variations in the weather usual for the month. 

 On the fifth an eclipse of the sun took place during a perfectly clear atmos- 

 phere. No one could have wished it better for observing the phenomenon. 

 The moon coming apparently out of darkness, appeared at first as a mere 

 speck on the outline of the sun, and continued in its course until one half 

 or more of the surface of the sun was hidden from view. The atmosphere 

 had a softened, yellowish, slightly darkened appearance, giving a coloring 

 of the same to all objects in view. Thermometrical oscillation during the 

 eclipse was 3° of temperature: evening warmer, with indications of coming 

 storm. 



April. — Showery and drizzling rains for the first half of the month; the 

 balance very pleasant, growing weather. Rainfall, 5.11 inches. 



May. — Rather an unpleasant month; cool days, high winds, blustering 

 storms of dust, and light showers were quite prevalent. An earthquake 

 shock occurred on the twenty-fifth, at 12:16 o'clock p. m.; vibrations from 

 west to east, attended with a rumbling, muffled sound. Windows rattled 

 in their casements, but the oscillation of objects was hardly perceptible. 

 A gale of wind at 3 o'clock p. m., which raised the dust in clouds; evening 

 very pleasant, and at 10:32 o'clock p. m. another earthquake shock was 

 felt similar to that which occurred in the early part of the day. 



June — Was rather a pleasant month for this climate. The only phenom- 

 enon that occurred worth mentioning was an earthquake shock on the 

 seventh at 1:31 p. m. The vibrations were from west to east, attended 

 with low sound or noise; windows rattled, pendent and hanging objects 

 swayed to and fro, and people cried out, "An earthquake ! earthquake !" 

 The day was warm and very pleasant. 



July. — The month was normal in all its meteorological aspects, unless 

 it was the exception of a real thunder and lightning rainstorm that occur- 

 red on the morning of the sixteenth, from 5 to 8 a. m.; sharp lightning and 

 loud peals of thunder succeeded each other quite rapidly, and the rain 

 came down in great drops, patting the window glass, attended with a noise 

 almost like that of hail. Indications of the storm were markedly indicated 

 the day previously. * 



August. — The weather was usual to the month in all its relations. 



September — As usual, gave the maximum temperature for the year — on 

 the eighth, 91° Fahrenheit. A thick haze pervaded the atmosphere much 

 of the time of the month, through which the sun rose and set with an angry 

 red glow, portending each day of this phenomenon at violent change of 

 weather, which did not come. 



October. — A dry, cool, unpleasant month, early frosts and light rains in 

 the last half. On the fourth, at 12:45 o'clock a. m., it was said to have 

 been a slight shock of an earthquake; did not notice or feel it, but on the 

 twenty-seventh, at 9:15 o'clock p. m., an earthquake shock was felt, with 

 oscillations from southeast to northwest. Windows rattled in their case- 

 ments; pendent objects swayed slightly to and fro. It was not perceptible 



