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A REOISTEII 01' THE WEATIIKU AT SIIANGIIAE 



Monday and Tuesday being damp and disagreeable, followed on Wednes- 

 day and to-day by hard frost. Tiie average teni^jerature of the week 

 has been very nearly that of tlie corresponding week of last year ; in 

 1850 the mercury standing at 38-6°, and during the past week at 39 2'^. 



Obs. — The weather of the past week has been fine up to to-day, when 

 it changed from a bracing frosty to a misty hazy atmosphere, accom- 

 panied by temporary passing showers of drizzling rain. The average 

 temperature of the week has not ranged so low as the average of the cor- 

 responding week last year by 4-9°; that of 1850 being 34-4°, that of 

 the present year 39-3°. 



Obs. — The weather of the last week has not been so clear and bracing 



