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after which the cold increafed. On the night of the 15th the 

 thermometer flood at 24°, and on that of the 17th at 22" ; but 

 on the 23d the wind came about to W. and the weather grew 

 milder until the 26th, when it again blew a fl.orm at night, I 

 believe from the E. the thermometer at night being 23^"- The 

 27th and 28th it froze by day and thawed at night, and 

 thus continued until January the 9th, when at night there 

 was a heavy fall of fuow with hail, thermometer 24°. Ihe 

 nth much fnow, barometer 29.66, thermometer 26°, and at 

 night 15°, and fo it was on the nights of the 12th and 13th. 

 This maximum of cold was indicated by Six's thermometer. 

 On the 13th there was a heavy fall of fnow, and the baro- 

 meter fell to 28.7, winds, thermometer 35*. On the 15th a 

 thaw, at night a ftorm at Wejl^ barometer next day 29.7. And 

 on the night of the 19th an aurora borealis, which was fuc^ 

 ceeded on the night of the 21ft by a ftorm at S. or S. W. 



Henceforward the feafon was mild, but fomewhat windy 

 in fome -wejlcrly point, until March the ^th; when it began to 

 blow from the Eqft accompanied with fnow, and continued fo 

 with fome inclination to the North or South until the 14th. 



On the night of the T4th there were frequent fqualls at 

 S. E. after which the wind held a foutberly diredlion or South 

 Weji until the 2 2d, and then veered to the S. E. with rain. 



On the night of the 27th a great and beaiitiful aurora with 

 the vertex in the zenith; fucceeded on the 29th by a high 

 wind at N. Thermometer at twelve o'clock 41°. 



Hence- 



