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or less frosty, so that the blossoming of fruit-trees was much 

 retarded. There was a slight snow-storm on the afternoon of 

 the 9th, and some fell on the 10th, the night of which was ex- 

 cessively cold, the thermometer indicating only 7 degrees above 

 zero. The amount of rain was unusually small. 



April. — The mean temperature of this month, like that of the 

 four preceding, was below the average. Nearly half the number 

 of nights were frosty : on the 1 6th the thermometer was as low as 

 20 degrees. The 14th was bleak and cold, with some hail in the 

 afternoon ; and there were snow and hail showers on the fore- 

 noon of the 15th. The 27th was boisterous. Thunder was 

 heard between 1 and 2 p.m. on the 29th. 



May. — Frosty nights connnenced on the 26th of last No- 

 vember, and their frequent occurrence only terminated on the 

 5th of the present month, to the injurj^ of many kinds of vegeta- 

 tion at this period in a forward state. After the 5th, the 

 weather, on the whole, was exceedingly fine throughout, and the 

 mean temperature was 2 degrees above the average. On the 

 morning of the 29th, thunder, lightning, and heavy rain com- 

 menced soon after 1, and continued almost incessantly till 

 •^ past 4 A.M. 



June. — The mean temperature was 2 degrees below the ave- 

 rage ; tlie amount of rain half an inch less than the usual quan- 

 tity for the month. Thunder-showers occurred on the 8th ; the 

 15th was boisterous, and there was some thunder, with heavy 

 showers, on the afternoon of that day. On the 1 8th the wind 

 changed suddenly to N.,and constant rain commenced \ past 11 

 A.M. ; at 1 P.M. the under-current was from N.E. and the upper 

 from N. 



The potato disease was again evidently progressing, although 

 the weather was neither so cold nor so wet as in many corre- 

 sponding months of former yeai's, when no potato disease 

 existed. 



July. — The general character of this month was hot and dry. 

 The mean temperature was 2\ degrees above the average. The 

 14th was excessively hot, the thermometer indicating 93i 

 degrees in the shade ; and it stood as high as 90 degrees on the 

 two preceding days. The amount of rain was little more than 

 three-quarters of an inch, the greater portion of which fell on 

 one day — the 17th. There was no rain after the 20th. 



August. — The average temperature was fully maintained. 

 The 1st and 2nd were very hot and sultry. There were some 

 thunder-showers on the afternoon of the 8th. The evening of 

 the 15th was clear, and there was much vivid lightning ; rain 

 fell during the night. The total amount of rain was an inch 

 below the usual quantity. N.E. winds were prevalent. 



September. — In this month the mean temperature fell nearly 



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