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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for 1794. 



REMARKS, 



The weather in January and February 1794 was very mild and open. The 

 prevailing winds were from S. W. and S. S. W. ; ufually a brilk Ileady gale, but 

 fometimes more violent, particularly in February. The thermometer was as high 

 as 504 ill January, and 54 in February ; and once in January fo low as 21, only for 

 a fliort time, however, during a N. W. wind -, the froft lafted fome days. Very 

 little fnow fell. The temperature of thefe months was 6° or 7° above the mean 

 of the Hawkhill obfervations. There was a great deal of clear weather, and, though 

 the atmofphere was moift, there fell but little rain. 



March and April continued to maintain a fuperiority of 3 or 4 degrees in tem- 

 perature above the fame months in ordinary feafons. March was very dry, and 

 the wind frequently in the eaft. In the end of April, the weather was f^ually, with 

 the wind varying from S. W. to S. E. 



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