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Seaville, N. J—Two inches and two-tenths rain fell on the 6th, and two 
inches and four-tenths on the 16th. 
Nyces, Penn.—August 31.—White frost last night in a few places ; no damage 
done. 
Fallsington, Penn —This August, also the three summer months, have been 
the wettest of which the observer has any record. 
Philadelphia, Penn—lt rained in appreciable quantities on fifteen days, and 
the amount was 16.84 inches, while the average for the month for seventeen 
years, including this month, is only 4.52. The large quantity of rain that fell 
on the 15th caused a great freshet in both the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, 
doing considerable damage. At 2 0’clock in the afternoon the water was 7 feet 
4 inches above the dam at Fairmount. In August, 1860, 94 inches of rain fell, 
and that was the nearest approach to the present month during the seventeen 
years observed. 
Dyberry, Penn —This month has been unusually wet, damaging much hay 
and causing potatoes to rot badly. ; 
North Whitehall, Penn —This August has been wetter than any that the 
oldest inhabitants recollect. 
Tioga, Penn—August 31.—Since the 18th the weather has been very 
favorable for farm work, but cool nights; corn does not come forward very fast. 
This morning at 5 o’clock the mercury was at 40°, and there was quite a frost 
in some places, injuring corn and buckwheat a little. 
Pennsville, Penn.—There were frequent showers during the month, but no 
heavy rains or floods. Crops mostly gathered in, except corn and buckwheat, 
which are both well grown. Corn mostly late, owing to the wet in April and 
May. 
New Castle, Penn —August 31.—White frost; heavy in some localities; 
killed tender vegetation. 
’ Woodlawn, Md.—Very heavy rains have fallen during the month. On the 
1st and 2d two and a quarter inches fell, and on the 13th to the 17th six and a 
half inches. Fields and roads have been washed very badly, and great injury 
has been done to property in the valleys of streams. 
Annapolis, Md—August was characterized by heavy rains, the quantity 
greater than ever before recorded by the observer. On the 10th an inch and 
fifty-five hundredths fell in half an hour, from 4.35 p. m. to 505 p.m. 
Emmittsburg, Md.—Rained on fifteen days during the month. On the 16th, at 
4 a.m., there was a storm, blowing down trees; wind from the north. Frost in 
the neighborhood on the 31st, but none visible here. 
Catonsville, Md.—The heavy rains of the 14th and 15th raised the waters 
of Gwynne’s Fall, between Baltimore and Catonsville, so high as to earry off 
all the bridges exeept the Baltimore and Ohio railroad viaduct. The same 
took place October 10, 1866, previous to which the like had not occurred within 
the memory of the observer. 
Cape Charles light-house, Va.—Nearly two inches and three-quarters of 
rain fell on the first three days of August, and an inch on the 28th. These 
were the heaviest, only a little more than an inch and a third falling during the 
rest of the month. 
Lynchburg,.Va.—From a rough measurement without a gauge the observer 
estimates the rain of the 15th to have amounted to about an inch and a half. 
No heavy rain occurred during the month. 
Romney, West Va.—August 28, the hardest rain of the season, with vio- 
lent wind, and hail as large as birds’ eggs. 
Raleigh, N. C.—Three and one-tenth inches of rain fell during the night of 
the 2d, and one inch and two-tenths on the 14th and 15th, which were the two 
largest rains in the month. 
Albemarle, N. C—The rain during the night of the 2d amounted to three 
