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Temperature and rain of Dcccmher, 1863. — Contiinieil. 



Place. 



MINNESOTA. 

 St! Paul 



NEBRASKA. 



Bellevue . . 

 Fontenelle. 



COLORADO. 



Montgomery 



KANSAS. 



Lawrence . 

 Fort Riley . 

 Manhattan . 



Couuty. 



Ramsey 



Sarpy 



Washington 



Douglass . 



Davis 



RUey . . . . 



Olise rver's name. 



Rev. A. B. Paterson. 



Rev. Wm. Hamilton 

 .lohn Evans 



James Luttrell. 



W. L. G. Soule. 

 ElfordE. Lee... 

 H. L. Denison .- 



In. 

 L31 



3.85 

 2.90 



5.53 

 3.42 

 2.97 



After the foregoing- table had been prcipared for the press, we received reports 

 of observations made under the superintendence of Colonel James D. Graham, 

 corps of engineers for the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes. From 

 these Ave extract the following : 



Notwithstanding the extreme cold which prevailed in the west on the last 

 two or three days of December, the table of general means which follows shows 

 that the mean temperature of the month in those States was generally above 

 •that of the average of December for a series of years. 



