ISOSJ Meteorological Report. K'S 



On WcdneMay the 16th, a very brilliant meteor was feen to pafs over the metropolis, st 

 sxaftly twelve minutes be/ore nine o'clock in the evening. 



The wind has been very variabU this montli, and during the ftorm of ti)e 21th it fliiftci 

 to «very point of the compafa. 



Thefo/lozii/ig Olfcrrations u-ere coipmimicatcd hy Mr. Lofft, of Trqfton, in Sir folk : 



The ^Jeteotological Report, fince the commencement of this month, confifts of the fal- 

 lowing general circumftances ; fur illurtration of which fome obfervatioiis on the two pre- 

 ceding months appear rcquifite. 



May and June had liecn uncommonly fair and dry, with occafionally cold winds and fre» 

 ^uent night froils, fonic of them l^ron^. On the 2{ith of June the thermometer had varied, 

 from twelve at noon to twelve at nij;ht, fit>m 8i'|: to 67;- ; or, in other words, had pafTei 

 through 'ili degictsoi temperature, from nearly the hi^helT: temperature of July Li this 

 latitude, to about the mean temperature of beptember ; fuch a tranfition haidlj' ever occurs 

 ■Rven in the midll of winter. 



The cclipfe on the 16th of ihe fun, tliough fmall, had been very diftintt ; there wer« 

 then no fpots o!jfcrvable, with a good reftetlor, of the power of 100. Latter end of the 

 month feveral clulter fpots. 



By inadvenence the tiift contact in the edipfe was loft. At about fhe middle, altitude. 

 Sun, 24° -lo', nearly; at the end of the eclip-^e, 19° 43", nearly. 



The preceding (b.te of the weather having been fuch as I defcribed, July commenced with 

 rain, and, although ufually the dryelt nionih of 'the year, it has been wet and cloudy lo an 

 extraordinary degree. On the llth, wc had our fhare of the great and extenfive tempeft. 

 It was an univerfally cloudy Iky, from about nine in the morning, for about four hours. 

 Barometer funk from -9.91:. to 'J9.7. ; thermometer, from 73' to dti^". 



In the great folar eclipfe of above ten digits in September 1795, 1 remember, though it 

 was a verv fun-fhiny day, and the time of the height of the eclipfe nearly that which would 

 have been the warmeil part of the day, the thermometer funk 16' from the commencement 

 •f the eclipfe to the jreateft obfcuration. 



The thunder was very loud and continued, though diftant ; the lightning red. The 

 loudeit expiofion feemed to be near 30" from tlie flalh ; which, admitting found to travel 

 1,1-12 feet per fecond, implies a diftance of more than 33,000 feet, or about five miles. 

 By its violence at that diftance, it might be conjeftured what it muft have been when neareft. 



The 16th, 17th, and 18th were almoft a continued cloudy Iky, accompanied, efpeciiUly 

 •n the two firft, with thunder and lightning, and almoft inceflant and heavy raia. 



The 19th, cloudy and heavy rain. The 20th, cloudy with rain. 



Thermometer, nine in the morning of tlic l9th, JSj"',-— 20th, G-i^". 



Barometer, 29.6. nearly, during all tliefe rains. Wind wefterly. 



On the 16th, ia the evening, there w;!3 \ very beautliUl and perfeft rainbow; part of the 

 fecondary iris pretty diftinft. 



Some few glow-wjrms (but very luminous) were feen the latter end of laft month. 



The cuckow and the nightingale left us eariy. 



Vegetation Ilovv and backward in May and June; much accelerated in the courfe of this 

 month. 



Hay-harveft, of courfe, has fuiiered by the excefiive rain ; but wheat appears to have be- 

 nefited hitherto ; and barley is not thougl;t to have been any where materially injured, ia 

 general to have benefited alfo. 



Erratum: InfertS after April, in the meteorological account publilhed in June, for th^ 

 flov/ering of the cahba patujins. 



TltE LATE METEOR. 



We. have been favoured with the following Communication hi/ Mr. Hf.nry Fauy, of 

 Crown-Jireet, Wtjimiujicr, whofe ingenious and interejhng Objervnlions on the 

 Fhenomena of' AEetiors, Shooting-Slurs, and fulling or Meteoric Stones, which 

 aceoinpunied it, Jliall he given in our next. 



On Thurfday evening, the 17ch of July, about eight o'clock, while it was yet broad d.iy- 

 light, a meteor was leen, fufficiencly larjje and bright to attra£l attention in tlie day time, 

 •f which Mr. Farey giv«. the loUowing particulars. 



Having heard that Mr. Andrew f ofter, furgeon, and his fon, were In his garden near the Afy- 

 lum in St. George's Fields, in company with Mr. Henry Herbert, coal-merchant, of Little 

 Abingdon-ftrcet, Wcftminfter, and that they faw the late meteor diftinftly, he went to the 

 fpot, about noon on the ISth, in company with Mr. Herbert, and collected the following parti- 

 •ulars. At his rcijueft, e.ich of rhefe gentlemen in fuccefiion took a ftraight ftaft" in his hand, 

 «nil placing l^ijnfvif on \hv exatt fpot where lie ftooJ at the tinie tlie meteor was feen, point- 



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