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Table showing the highest and the lowest range of the thermometer, ^-c. — Continued. 



NOTES ON THE ^TEATHEE. 



POE DECEMBER, 1869. 



8teuJ)en, Me. — Anclior ice in river 9tli ; severe rain storm lOtli, and 

 freshets 20th to 23d ; snow and ice gone 31st. Last four months un- 

 paralleled for high winds. 



West WaterriUe^ Me. — Faint aurora 5th ; fields nearly bare 31st. De- 

 cember snow-fall, 25.5 inches. 



Gardiner, Me. — River closed 4th ; aiu'oras 5th, 7th ; last of three 

 weeks, good sleighing 27th. December mean average temperature for 

 thirty -four years, 23.09°; 1869, 25.10°. Average December rain in 

 thirty-four vears, 3.93 inches; 1869, 4.71 inches. Mean temperature of 

 1869, 43.92° ; rain-fall of 1869, 51.72 inches. 



Lisbon, Me. — Teams crossed Androscoggin Eiver on ice 20th to 27th. 

 Sleighing gone 31st. 



Noricay, Me. — Faint auroras 5th, 14th ; good sleighing 23d to 26th ; 

 snow nearly gone 31st. Mean temperature of 1869, 43.236° ; rain-fall 

 last eleven" months, 52.46 inches; snow on forty-six days, ninety-six 

 inches. 



Cornisliville, Me. — December average mean temperature for forty years, 

 21°; for 1869, 27.32°. Snow this month, twenty-four inches. 



Stratford, JSf. H. — Warmest December in twelve years ; but little snow 

 on the ground, but pleasant. 



Whitefield, N. H. — Aurora 5th ; fourteen inches snow on ground 31st. 

 Snow 24.25 inches in October, jSTovember, and December. 



Tamivorth, iV. H. — Ground bare till 4th ; auroras 7th, 14th, the last 

 in ascending waves ; twenty inches snow 25th ; crows and blue jays 

 28th ; snow nearly gone 31st. A favorable month. 



Goffstoicn Center, JSf. H. — Last part of month warm. Snow gone 31st. 



lAinenhurg, Vt. — Month mild, less snow than usual ; auroras visible 

 nearly ever}^ fair night or evening. 



