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A UEGISTEIl OF Tlir, WEATIIKi; AT SIIANGHAE 



Week ending 19th December, 1850. 



Obs. — The past seven days have been rather unseasonable — tlie first 

 half being wet, and the latter half unsettled. Tlie average temperature 

 of the week ranges 3-8 above that of the corresponding week last year. 

 The surrounding country looks peculiarly bleak ; and its unvaried flat- 

 ness is perhaps never more apparent than at this season, when the 

 trimming of the hedges and the cutting down of the reeds from the 

 tombs and banks of the canals removes any appearance of undulations 

 tliat it may have presented before. 



Week ending 26th December, 1850. 



Obs. — The atmosphere during the past week has been very mucii such 

 as would be experienced in England during the Christmas week, 

 although scarcely so cold. For the last seven days the frost has been 

 almost uninterrupted ; the ihermometrical column averaging 38°, a 



