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Tahle showing the average tem'perature and fall of rain (in inches and tenths) 

 for the month of December, for each of the years named, and for the five years 

 first named collectively, with the average number of places in each State in 

 which the observations were made. 



In previous numbers of these reports we heave given tables showing the pro- 

 gress of atmospheric changes in their general movement from the far west to the 

 Atlantic coast and even out on to the ocean; we now give below a table fallowing 

 the temperature on one day over all parts of the country from which registers 

 have been received. Chiistmas day has been selected as one ou which the 

 weather is generally noticed and remembered, and also on account of its having 

 occurred but a few days before the beginningof the severe cold and snow storm 

 which was so destructive at the west in its effect upon animal life as well as 

 upon vegetation. The table shows that east of Ohio the day was clear and cold, 

 the temperature being below freezing ; that to the west it was cloudy and 

 warmer, and in the States further west there was snow and rain during all or part 

 of the day. There v/as but little wind in any part of the country. 



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