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Duration of cold m Decembe?-, 1863, and January, 1864 — Continued. 



Neeah Bay. December, maximuin, 5-J° ; minimum. 30^ ; mean, 41. 7^. 



TEMPERATURE AND WIND ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1864. 



The following- table gives the temperature at 7 a. m., 2 p. m., and 9 p. m. 

 of the first day of January ; also, at -7 a. m. on the second, and the direc- 

 tion and force of the wind at the same hours. The letters indicating the 

 direction show the point of the compass from which the wind blew. The 

 force of the wind is given by estimation by nearly all the observers, very 

 few having any instrument for measuring it, and the figures indicating the 

 force are -according to the following scale, which is printed on all the 

 Smithsonian Meteorological reo'isters : 



The fcill of temperature is distinctly marked on the sea-coast of Florida and 

 South Carolina. 



At St. John, New Brunswick, the temperature continued to fall on the 2d 

 and till the morning of the 3d. The readings of the thermometer on the 2d were, 

 6 a. m., 18°; 2 p. m., 10°; 10 p. m., 5°; 3d, 6 a.m., 4°. The observations 

 are made at 6 a. m. instead of T, and 10 p. m. instead of 9. 



At St. John's, Newfoundland, the temperature was 12° at 7 a. m. of the 3d. 



