432 CORRESPONDENCE. 



6th. One small deep cup with a handle resembling a bird's head, 

 3|- inches across the top, 3^ inches deep, 4^ inches to top of handle. 



7th. One small cup, found at the head of a child, 2^ inches wide^ 

 If inches deep. 



8th. Five shells from the foreheads of the skulls ; three species of 

 unio. 



All the articles being quite fragile they were cleaned when first 

 procured and received a light coat of copal varnish, except the shells. 

 The ornamented shells before mentioned fell to pieces. 



In the neighborhood of the locality where these mounds were found 

 are graves differing from those from which these objects were taken. 

 These graves are 29 by 34 inches square, from 7 to 9 inches deep ; the 

 bottom and sides lined with black bituminous shale^ and contain bones 

 broken into short pieces, as if the bodies had been forcibly thrust in 

 doubled up. 



Many additional facts tending to illustrate some of the habits of the 

 aboriginal inhabitants could be procured if desirable. 



NOTES ON BAROMETEK, RAIN AND SNOW GAGES, &c. 



BY R. H. GARDINER. 



My experience does not confirm the observation in the 33tl page of 

 the pamphlet Directions for Meteorological Observations upon the fall 

 of the barometer preceding a storm, and its rise during the storm. 

 On the contrary, when the barometer rises considerably above the 

 mean I consider it as an indication that a storm will occur within 

 31 hours ; and when it has not, and I have had an opportunity to 

 learn tlie state of the ocean on our coast, I have generally learned that 

 it was throwing a heavy sea upon the shore, showing that tlie storm 

 was not very distant. As. soon as the storm commences with us I 

 expect to see the barometer begin to fall and continue to fall till the 

 time when it is about to cease. Professer Cleaveland remarked to 

 me, many years since, that during a storm, as soon as he saw the 

 mercury in the barometer become convex he knew that the storm was 

 about over, and that fair weather might be expected immediately. 

 My experience fully confirms this observation. I consider it a general 

 rule, though I have known exceptions when, in a violent NE. storm, 

 the barometer has risen during the whole continuance. 



There are two kinds of clouds proverbially with sailors precursors 

 of stormy weather, mackerel clouds and mare's tails, which are scarcely 

 sufficiently designated by cirro cumulus and cirro stratus, under 

 which I suppose that they must be classed. 



In our cold climate, where we have frequently in the winter rain 

 with the thermometer below 32°, I consider that the rain gage I use 

 is superior to any I have ever seen. It consists of a funnel with 

 an upright copper edge, the superficies of which are exactly a foot 



