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ceeded advantageously, 
seen once on the, 20th, 
September. On the 2d, the, thermo- 
meter, reached its greatest-height during 
the year, 80°, but fell; on, the night. of 
the 28th, four degrees and a,half below 
the freezing, point; this was|an \ex- 
treme of, cold seldom, experienced, so 
early in the year; the quantity, of rain 
was_also very great, yet the mean tem- 
perature, was, higher than that of the 
same month in the two preceding years. 
. October.— Rain fell, frequently during 
the month, onthe 10th, something more 
than.an. inch; indeed the weather 
throughout may be denominated wet 
and dull, the fine days being very few. 
November.— There were many fine 
days in, the month, and, some heayy 
gales of wind, particularly on the 23d, 
Lightning was 
at, south; the quantity of rain three» 
times as much as in the month of No- 
vember, last, year, but the mean. tem- 
perature, and mean height, of the ba- 
rometer were much the same. 
December.—Snow tell once, in the 
month, onthe night of the 3d, but in 
a, very) trifling quantity, and was suc- 
ceeded by rain, during a large portion 
of the following day; the quantity of 
rain, for the whole month, greater than 
in December last year, which was a wet 
month, some few days extremely fine 
and mild; the mean temperature and 
mean height of the barometer above 
that of the same month last year. 
The statement is made to conform to 
the-plan observed by Mr. Pitt, of Car- 
lisle, and may prove beneficial by shew- 
ing the different temperatures, &c., at 
such distant stations. 
Jamus G. TavEM. 
‘High Wycombe, Jan. 6, 1825. 
——— 
MerrorotocicaL REPORT FOR 
Hoxton. 
Sir: I again send you an account of 
the weather for the past year, as a se- 
quel to my last, p. 33, vol. 57, viz. 
January, 1824,—Began warm, the 
first week thermom. at 48°, with some 
rain; the remainder of the month dry 
and frosty with little exception ; there 
were three or four thick foggy days; the 
mornings and evenings throughout hazy, 
but the sun frequently very clear at 
noon. 
‘February—Was pretty uniform -for 
the first fortnight, neither wet nor dry, 
but. damp from night. mists; one morn- 
ing a little snow, the first this year, but 
barely enough to cover the ground ; the 
last-fortnight, excepting ‘two or’ three 
Meteorological Report for Hoxton. 
days; was wet/and cold);)a Jitthe: more 
snow. fell,‘but the rainbaving prierspos+ 
session, it could not day. tigad 0 
The first weelv in ‘AZarch was almix- 
ture of wet) and dry, from sharp: svind- 
frost, and rain and a‘trifling snow); lse- 
cond week, ‘boisterously windy (many 
shipwrecks), and cold with ailittle snow ; 
on the 13th: was a shower of snow with 
hail, succeeded by a clap of | thunder:at 
three o’clock p.m.; the:}7th; and two) or 
three following days, were ‘beautiful, 
warm, and growing, from: which tine 
the cold increased; and on the 22d iwas 
a great fall of snow for two honrs, which, 
as before, could not lay bleakowinds 
with frequent flying showers /of «rain, 
hail, and snow, nearly made up ‘the rest 
of the month, which) ended: dry ‘and 
frosty. GSE 
The first fortnight in April brought 
cold and searching N. E.-winds; in'ge+ 
neral dry, frequently fine and cleaviat 
noon, excepting the 11th being asnowy 
morning, a great) deal fell but soon 
dissolved. © *Spring~ begat ~ with» ‘this 
month, but summer-weather with the 
Easter weck, being exceedingly fine and 
temperate; the latter part wasowarm 
and showery ;: left off fires.- scj-tle 
May—Opened wet, cool, andovery 
changeable, took to our fires again; it 
continued lowery and ungeuial, together 
with blighting winds from N. E. to W.: : 
fruit much injured;, then succeeded , 
three days of continued heavy rain, 
which so penetrated every house, and 
inundated various parts in and around 
the metropolis, as to leave mapvy hauses 
under water, with other, evils attending 
such floodings.; ‘a little fair weather was 
the conclusion. Hf 
June--Began fair, the Whitsun holi- 
days beautifully fine, clear and warm, 
was then followed by a cool nipping ait, 
with frequent rains, wind very often in 
E, and N. E., bringing a deal of blight, 
in fact, altogether it was a more cold, 
wet, and unpleasant June, than for 
many years. sti 
July ~For about the first threeweeks, 
was directly the reverse weather, being 
delightfully fine, and became. (except- 
ing a day or two) sultry and close,'with 
scarcely a motion of air; which ‘there- 
fore, produced, on Wednesday the 14th, 
as great a storm of thunder, lightning, 
and rain, from nine o’clock p.m., till past 
one o’clock the next, morning as.1s pets 
haps remembered ;, the lightning began 
in the S., veered round to, the By.an 
so alternately). keeping -up; continued 
and \vast sheet-flashes, “blinding: youdor 
a mo- 
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