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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for 1795. 



The mean temperature of the whole year is 47.75. 



R E M A R IL S. 



The winter of 1795 was remarkable for the feverity and continuance of the 

 cold. The year began with a fharp froft, which had fet in on the 26th of the pre- 

 ceding month, but which lafted only till the 3d of January, when the wind came 

 round to the S. W- and wns followed by a thaw. On the loth the froft returned, 

 the wind varying frotn N. W. to N. E. with heavy falls of fnow between 

 the 15th and 20th. On the 20th the cold became very fevere ; and on the 22d the 

 thermometer, about 8 in the evening, flood at l4-|-°, the lowed that I obferved it du- 

 ring the whole feafon. This intenfity of the cold lafted, however, but a (hort time, 

 for by 10 o'clock the thermometer had rifen to l6i°. On the fame night, in the Bo- 



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