200 Meteorological Report. 
We had strong gales on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 17th, and 30th 5 and fresh gales on 
the 1st, 8th, 13ch, 14th, 15th, 23d, 24th, 25th, 27th, and Sist. ae 
There was rain on the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, and 31st; and snow on 
the 1st, 2d, 3d, 28th, and 30th. ’ 
The weather was frosty on the 1st, 2d, Sd, 4th, Sth, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 22d, 26th, 
27th, Wh, 29th, and 30th; and hazy or foggy on the 10th, 12th, 14th, 17th, and @ist. 
In the early part of the month I observed several bullfinches about the hedges, an occurs 
rence which J have seldom refnarked, except in the extreme cold weather of winter. 
January S.. The starlings, which in the beginning of November were much more nume- 
xous than they usually are in this neighbourhood, continue apparently undiminished in num- 
bers. 
January 8. Fieldfares are very numerous. 
January 10. Notwithstanding the long continuance of easterly gales and frost, the wild- 
fowl which have come inare hitherto very few. Wild-geese have been exceédingly scarce. 
One wild-swan, (Anas Cygnus ferus, of Linnwus,) has been shot. 
The frost has been so hard, thatthe rivers are frozene The frost broke up on the 10th. 
January 15. A great quantity of what isdenominated in this neighbourhood ground-ice, 
is now floating down both the Avon and Stour. This ice is formed at the bottom of the 
water, and is known by the roots and leaves of water-plants, which it carries along with it. 
Many persons have been much perplexed to account fot the formation of this ice. 
‘January 17. Theweather is now so warm that spiders come out of their hiding-places, and 
stand upon their webs ; and the house-flies have in some degree recovered from their tor- 
idity. ; 
: Seeury 19, 2 this day saw advertised in one of the London papers, that a single dealer in 
wild-fowl had just received for sale, 10,000 Bernacle geese. The 4,000 mallards, 204 
cranes, 204 bitterns, 400 herons, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 400 woodcocks, and 100 
curlews, which are stated to have been served up at Archbishop Nevill’s famous iathronization 
feast, in the year 1466, were, I think, scarcely more remarkable. : 
January 25. Snow-drops and primroses are in flower, under the sunny walls of warm and 
gheltered gardens ; and the flower-buds of the mezereon are nearly ready to burst. 
January 27. The only salmon which has been caught during the present month, was 
taken on this day. [t weighed twenty-four pounds. 
Hampsbire. 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Wbservations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of January, 1811, to the 
24th of February, 1811, inclusive, Four Miles N.N,W. St. Paul's, 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highest, 30°15. Jan. 25. Wind Wi Higheft, 50° Feb, 10 and14, Wind S.W. 
Lowest, 28°65. Feb. 22, —— W. Lowest, 20° Jan. 30. _— E. 
On he morning of 
y the 27th the thermot 
Onthe morning | Greatest 4 
Greatest f# 55 hun- RE > meter stood at 38°, 
fwariation in }dredths of of the 26th ult. | variationin @ 14%, and at the same hour 
- the mercury was | 24 hours. a 
@4 hours. 4 an inch. ‘ on the 28th, it was as- 
mera: low as 24°, 
Tur quantity of rain fallen since the last Report of it is equal to 5-7 inches in depth, 
“This has been a mild month for the season of the year; the thermometer has been but five 
times below the freezing point, of these indeed it was on the 29th and 30th of January as 
low as 20°. The average height of the mercury for the whole month is 38°. which is two 
degrees higher chan it was for the same month last year, and 5° higher than it was in the 
month of February 1809. Vegetation in the fields and gardens has made some progress, and 
many of the fruit-trees are in full bud, a circumstance not very favourable to eur future ex- 
pectations, as much severe weather may be expected to cut off these early products. 
The average height of the barometer is 29°27, which will readily account for the number 
of wet days in the month. On the Sist of January we had a very deep fall of snow, which 
was succeeded by a rapid thaw, so that in the course of twenty-four or thirty hours scarcely 
a vestige was left, except where it was drifted. On the 1Sth of February there was another 
fall of snow, but of no great consequence. The wind has been chiefly in the west. There 
have been but seven brilliant days, elevenon which there have been sain; the remainder have 
been cloudy. 
Highgate. . 
