2i6 METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT. 



In May the heat fell down nearlji to the common average of that month, viz. 

 5o4-, fo that it feemed cold, compared with the reft of the feafon. The wind was 

 often in the e3ft,and the nights cold. 



June and July were verj' favourable ; warmer than the mean by i or 2 de- 

 grees. In June, the temperature was remarkably uniform ; and the wind was 

 moftly in the weft. The weather in July was alfo fine ; the wind moderate, and 

 generally weft. 



The Harveft began with Auguft ; the weather tolerable, though more rainy 

 than ufual, and colder. The temperature of this month is almoft 2° below the mean. 



The wind was generally weft ; but a furface wind was to be obferved at the fame 

 time blowing from the eaft. This is often obferved with us in the fineft weather : 

 it feldom fails to happen at the time of the great changes of the wind from the 

 eaft to the weft. 



September was rainy ; its temperature rather below the mean, with eafterly 

 winds about the middle and end of the month. 



October rainy ; the wind variable, though moftly S. W. ; the barometer low ; 

 and the mean temperature 49°. 66, a very little under the mean. 



November was warm for the feafon, though rainy, with the wind variable, and 

 often very high from S. W. 



December was alfo warmer than ufual, by nearly two degrees : The wind was 

 eafterly till near the end of the month, when it changed to the N. E : A good deal 

 of fnow fell on the 25th ; and, on the laft day of the year, the thermometer, in the 

 evening, was at 26 : The wsather clear, with little wind. 



On the whole, the mean temperature of this year exceeded that of ordinary fea- 

 fons by almoft 2°. This excefs of heat is very confiderable ; but, as it fell chiefly 

 in the winter months, it was not attended with any particular advantage. The rain 

 that fell was 28.73 inches. 



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