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month 43°, March ; least range 20°, December. Range for the whole year 4° greater 
than 1846. 
Maximum of barometer 30°33, March 4th; °20 less than 1846. Minimum 27°80, 
December 6th; °52 less than 1846. Greatest range for any month 2°05, December ; 
*65 greater than 1846. Least range ‘12, February; °33 less than 1846. Range 
for the year °59 greater than 1846. 
Rain fallen 30°232 inches; 4°838 inches less than 1846. Least rain in any month 
1°000 inch, February ; most, 5:375 inches, May. 
Winds: east 2 days, west 45, north 2, south 1, north-east 15, north-west 27, 
south-east 8, south-west 39. 
Weather: clear 127 days, rain 48, frost 23, snow 18, mist 18, thunder 3. 
The author adds remarks on aurore, characteristic clouds, and other phenomena. 
Remarkable Tide in the British Channel, Friday, July 7, 1848, as tt 
appeared at Lyme Regis, Dorset. By Guorce Roperts. 
Weather warm and calm. Dead neap tides. Fine for twenty-four hours before 
the phenomenon. About two hours and a half before the phenomenon, at 13 a.M., it 
blew hard for ten minutes. The wind before and after this gust was gentle, and had 
gone round to all points of the compass. At dead low water, or perhaps just after 
the water had begun to flow at 4 a.m., the tide began to run into the Cobb, so that 
a boat rowed with two oars could not make head against it, but was carried along 
with it. My informant estimates the height of the water to have been about six or 
seven feet, and that it took eight minutes to flow in, or at most ten minutes, and 
the same time to flow out. Then when out it began to flow in again, and so con- 
tinued till eight o’clock, a space of four hours, when the sea was quite calm, and so 
continued all the day. The same was experienced at Dartmouth and Portland. Some 
of the sailors said it was a bore; others that it was caused by thunder-weather ; 
some said there had been an earthquake in the ocean : some sailors say the tide ran 
ten knots an hour *. 
Note on ‘* Shooting Stars’ seen August 10, at Armagh. 
By the Rev. T. R. Rosinson, D.D. 
Though last night was mostly cloudy here we saw a good many ‘shooting stars.’ 
From 12 to 128 45™ thirty were seen through a thick covering of the stratus family ; 
their light was bluish-white, and most had long red trains. Towards morning it 
cleared, and from 1* 41™ to 2 41™ three of us counted 117; but as two used deep 
spectacles in which the margin of the field of view must be indistinct, it is probable 
that many of the smaller were missed. Many of them were large and brilliant, and 
with few exceptions their motion was directed to a point which I estimate to be 
near 7 Ophiuchi. It is remarkable that nearly five-sixths of the whole were north 
of the prime vertical. Several seemed to explode in their course, and so decidedly 
that we actually listened for explosions. None were however heard, though the night 
was perfectly still. 
In the earlier part of the evening aurora was seen in the N.E., and it must have 
been rather intense, or it could not have been visible in the moonlight. 
On certain Effects produced on Sound by the rapid motion of the observer. 
By J. Scorr Russex1, F.RS. Ed. 
Until the production of the very high velocities now given to railway trains, no 
* In Mr. Roberts’s Collection of Historical Matter respecting Lyme Regis, are three en- 
tries made by old clerk Read as follows :— 
“‘ May 31, 1759: the sea flowed three times in one hour. 
“ Aug. 18, 1797: the sea flowed three times in one hour, attended with lightning. 
“ Jan. 26, 1799: the sea as above about 4 o’clock a.m.” 
Upon a summer’s day about 1813 something similar took place. Mr. Roberts asks whe- 
ther the Seiches of the Swiss lakes are referrible to the same cause as these movements of 
the water of our British Channel. 
