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sky. The first swallows this season were 
seen on the 6th; they were nuniecrous on 
the 18th. 
‘May. The mean temperature of this 
monti:, 48° 4’, is extremely low for the 
season. ‘The weather was uniformly cold 
and dry, with brisk parching easterly 
winds, which -proved very unfavourable 
to vegetation, The mountains were fre- 
quently covered with snow. 
~ June. The extreme’ drought which 
‘prevailed during this, and the two prece- 
ding months, wasseverely felt here as well 
aS in every other part of the kingdom, 
The weather this month was gonerally 
bright, the days hot, and the-nizhts cold 
“and frosty. ‘Phe quantity of rain, 1,6 
inches, fell chiefly on the @8th and ‘20th. 
* July. The moist and showery weatlier 
Beech ces this ‘month ‘was productive 
of the most beneficial effects to the grain 
crops. The, highest degree of tempera- 
ture, 719, is ‘unusnally low for the season, 
- yet the average fur the whole monthis 
_ nearly equal to that..of the same period 
August. The weather this month 
was, on the whole, very favourable for 
the hevodell On the Sd and 4th we had 
some vivid lightning and loud peals of 
thunder; also on the Sist, a dreadful 
storm of thunder and Tightning, which 
commenced itt the evening and continued 
nearly all night ; during the former part 
of the storm, rain, mixed with hail, fell in 
torrents, 
September, On the ist of this month 
we were visited by another violent storm 
of thunder, lightning, and rain. Two 
women were struck down by the lightning, 
and stunned for several hours, but for- 
tunately recovered; four cattle were 
killed by the electric fluid in this neigh- 
__ bourhood.. A monument in Stanwix 
* church-yard was struck by the lightning 
» and much shattered; two massy stones 
-cramped together, of which the pedestal 
-was compesed, were separated to up- 
4 wards of a foot distance. The turrents 
of rain and hail which fell at the time 
_ déluged the streets of this city to such a 
degree, that many of the ground-floors 
were covered with water. During the 
night of the 2d, the sky was illuminated 
) with incessant gleams of lightning, when 
at thetime it w as.quite serene and cloud- 
~ hess. The heat of this and the preceding 
day was uncommonly oppressive. ‘Fhe 
weatlicr afterwards continued fair, cali, 
and brilliant, and extremely fine through- 
gut the whole of the month, ‘The days 
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were liot and the nights,cold, with heavy. 
dews. The hirundines disappeared the 
beginning of this month; the prece ding 
year they continued with: us till the aed 
of October, 
October continued fair, ant, aud" 
exceedingly fine, ull the 18th, duving 
which period the mid-day heat was un- 
commonly powerful.” From the 18th till 
the 23d, the weather was very wet and 
stormy; the remainder was variable, 
when we had some strong frost in the 
nights. At the conclusion of this montit 
many of the highest mountains in this 
brilh 
neighbourhood were capped with snow; — 
and, with regard to the weather, oe 
may be said to have commenced . 
reign, 
November. In the’ former part of ° 
this month we had some considerable 
falls of snow, particularly on the 2d and” 
6th; that which fell on the latter day did 
not disappear from the fields before the” 
10th. The weather continued variable, 
with intervals’ of frost and mild rai; 
, 
towards the latter end of the month it ° 
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was sometimes. bright’ and’ pleasant. . 
The wind, with some trifling exceptions, ~ 
was moderate, and on eight days we ex-< 
perienced a dead calm: “the mountains * 
were generally covered.«with snow, 
Not” 
withstanding the very fine autumn, we ° 
never remember a corn harvest atatinge . 
ing for so long a period as the present ; 
it commenced in this district tie bevin- 
ning of August, and was scarcely coin- 
pleted at the end of this month; in the’ 
higher districts of this county some fields 
at this time were not reaped. ’ 
December... The unseasonable mild‘ 
part of this month, was, as ustal, at- 
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‘weather experienced during the greater | 
tended with violent wihdsahannieh: rain.’ 
The only frost worth recording, was‘on ‘ 
the 9th, 10th, and 11th. 
On the night ° 
of the 20th, we had some extremely vivid” 
lightning and distant thunder; ou .the 
following day the wind blew a viclent 
hurricane from the $.8.E. from which 
time tll the 26th; the weather continued 
very stormy, with lightning in the nights 5 
the last three days of the mbuth were 
calm and pleasant, and inclined to frost. 
The two extremes of the barometer for 
the whole year happened this month,” 
within ‘the short period ‘of five days, 
namely 28°67 on the 25th, and 30°70 on ° 
the 80th. The mountains were fres 
quently covered with snow, 
Wiitram Pitt. 
Carlisle, January 2, 1811. 
