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tity was very small. N.E. winds were prevalent. Thunder Mas 

 heard early a.m. on the 5th, and between 2 and 3 p.m. there was 

 a storm of thunder and lightning during which large pieces of 

 ice fell, of an irregular, flattened shape ; some of them measured 

 l-^ inch in length. The central part of some of them was 

 composed of compactly frozen snow, and this was surrounded 

 with pure ice. The night of the 13th was cold, the radiating 

 thermometer indicating 3 degrees below freezing. 



July. — Although the mean maxima heat of the days was 

 above the average, yet the mean minima of the nights was so 

 much colder than usual, that the mean of the month was about 

 1 degree below the average. The amount of rain was about 

 half an inch more than usually falls in this month; it fell gene- 

 rally in heavy showers : on the 24th the quantity was unusually 

 large. 



August. — The weather was generally fine throughout this 

 month. The mean temperature was fully maintained, and less 

 than the usual quantity of rain fell. There was much lightning, 

 with some thunder, early on the morning of the 8th. Heavy 

 showers fell at ^ past 3 p.m. on the 9th. 



September. — The weather, on the whole, was favourable, an 

 average temperature being fully maintained, with scarcely the 

 usual quantity of rain. The air at intervals possessed a consider- 

 able degree of dryness. There was lightning, with rain, on the 

 night of the 1st ; thunder, lightning, and rain on the evening 

 of the 2nd, and also on the night of the 3rd. Lightning was 

 seen on the evenings of the 5th and 12th ; and distant thunder 

 was heard between 12 and 1 p.m. on the 10th. 



October. — The mean temperature was nearly a degree below 

 the average. The amount of rain about half an inch less than 

 usually falls in this month ; and of the total quantity nearly one- 

 half fell on the 3rd. The nights of the 8th, 9th, and 10th were 

 frosty. 



November. — The maxima temperatures of the days were fully 

 equal to the average of these for this month ; but the minima 

 were low, especially in the last week. On the night of the 26th 

 the thermometer was 14 degrees below freezing. 



December. — The mean temperature was 2^ degrees below the 

 average. The amount of rain was less than usual. In the last 

 weelc frost set in severely, and, at the close of the year, ground 

 operations were, in consequence, generally obstructed. 



