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A REGISTER OF THE WEATHER AT 6HANGHAE 



roots. The temperature has been verj' nearly equal to that of last year, 

 having only exceeded last year's average by 0-1° ; the present week's 

 average being 75-4°. 



Obs. — For the first time duriii 

 ture exceeded the average of that 

 vious one. This week's average 

 has been as much as 80-8° — and 

 this average would have been h 

 has been 86-5°. Last year's corr 

 the thermometer only attaining 

 than in 1851. The sky has been 

 week, and much rain has fallen, 

 promising. 



g the present season has the tempera- 

 of the corresponding week of the pre- 

 height of the thermoraetrical column 

 were this day's observationsj included 

 igher, as the mean temperature to-day 

 esponding week was unconmionly cold, 

 an average of 69-2° — lower by 11-6° 

 more or less clouded during the entire 

 The crops, however, are looking very 



