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DECEMBER. 
THERMOMETERS. THERMOMETERS. 
Date.| Rainfall. |], __ {Date.| Rainfall. 
Max.| Min.) Wet, Dry. Max.} Min.) Wet.) Dry. 
1] 0.40 43 | 37 | 37 | 87} 9] 0.63 50 | 36 | 39 | 39 
0.00 41 | 27 26* 27410} 0.05 40 | 29 ‘froz.| 30 
0.00 84 | 28 lfroz. 25} 11] 0.23 35 | 29 | 35 | 35 
0.01 BEAD. 5.4) Say Peo OT 42 | 35 | 41 | 41 
0.00 45 | 32 | 45 | 45413} 0.10 42 | 35 | 35 | 35 
0.01 48 | 37 | 46 | 47] 14 | 0.03 39 | 32 | 382 | 32 
0.12 52 | 35 | 38 | 857 15 | 0.02 37 | 29 |froz.| 29 
ao ts OS Gwe Re OO OS 
0.01 | 40/33 | 36'364}16|] 0.12 | 33| 29] ,, | 29 
Total rainfall of the first sixteen days of the month 1.84. 
The record of the rain during the holidays has unfortunately been lost ; 
and the readings of the thermometers preserved during that period seem 
so untrustworthy (in some cases they are glaringly impossible), that it has 
been thought best not to publish them. The loss of the registrations of 
the temperature is much to be regretted, seeing that the weather during 
this part of the year was perhaps more interesting than that of any other 
part. The loss of the rainfall is not so much to be regretted, since after 
the beginning of the snow (Dec. 14th) it is known that the fall was ex- 
ceedingly small. 
* Notwithstanding the lowness of the temperature, the water was 
not frozen. 
