FOR N1NI-: MONTHS OF THE YEARS 1850-51. 



V/eek ending 5th December, 1850. * 



51 



Obs. — Nothing could be finer than tlie weather of the last week, with 

 its clear sky and bracing frosty mornings, although the mercury in tlie 

 thermometer has stood higher than last week. The average height of 

 the thermometrical column this week will be observed to be 45-9, or 

 11-2 below the average of the corresponding week in 1849 — a week of 

 remarkable heat, accompanied by unsteadiness of the barometer, and fol- 

 lowed by some of the coldest weather experienced during the year. 



Obs. — The weather of the last week has been uncommonly fine, witli 

 an average temperature ranging 4*7 above that of the same week last 

 year. This day has been particularly warm, exceeding the iieat of any 

 day in the corresponding week of 1849 by 10 degrees. The wheat and 

 bean crops look so far advanced as to cause some doubts as to the conse- 

 quences to them of a liard frost. 



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