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the month. The barometer was generally very low. There 

 was a hail-storm on the forenoon of the 10th. The 11th was 

 boisterous, with heavy showers. 



April. — The mean temperature was very little below the 

 average, but the amount of rain was nearly double the usual 

 quantity. The last six nights were frosty, those of the 26th and 

 29th being the most severe. In the former of these the common 

 thermometer indicated 6 degrees, and the radiating thermometer 

 10 degrees below freezing. Fruit trees were then generally in 

 blossom ; many of the flowers appeared to withstand the first, 

 and even the second night's frost, probably from the heat then 

 existing in the trees ; but six successive frosty nights produced 

 a ruinous effect on most of them, and the crop of fruit was, in 

 consequence, but very partial. 



May. — Tins month was remarkably hot and dry. The mean 

 temperature was about 4 degrees above the average. No rain 

 fell till the 19th, and none between the 22nd and 30th inclusive. 

 The air was exceedingly dry on the 8th, 11th, and 12th. On 

 the morning of the 18th the clouds were observed moving in 

 different directions ; and in the afternoon there was thunder, ac- 

 companied with hail showers. 



June.' — The mean temperature was rather more than a degree 

 below the average. The amount of rain was nearly double the 

 usual quantity ; much of it fell on the 10th, 12th, and 23rd. 

 Thunder and lightning occurred on the afternoon of the 12th, 

 with heavy rain. 



July. — This month was 6 degrees colder than usual. The 

 amount of rain was nearly an average. On the 14th there were 

 thunder, lightning, and heavy rain at night ; and a peal of 

 thunder was heard on the 20th. The 26th Avas boisterous, with 

 slight rain. The unusually low average of temperature was not 

 so much owing to the want of heat during the days as to the 

 coldness of the nights. 



August. — The mean temperature was 3^ degrees below the 

 average, whilst the amount of rain was almost 2^ inches above 

 the usual quantity. There were only five days on which no rain 

 fell. There was a thunderstorm, with large hail, on the 9th, 

 and from 5^ till 7 p.m. on the 10th. A heavy thunderstorm 

 was experienced on the 31st; a distant peal was heard on that 

 day 9,t 15 minutes past 4 p.m. ; clouds then formed rapidly; at 

 5 P.M. it was so dark that one could scarcely see to read indoors, 

 and at that time lightning and thunder commenced, witli rain in 

 torrents. The lightning had a bluish tinge. Sometimes it 

 seemed to dart perpendicularly from the clouds to the earth, 

 appearing for the instant like an entire stream. The storm con- 

 tinued from 5 P.M. till 1\ p.m. 



September. — This month, like the preceding as regards tern- 



