516 Ilekorolog teal Report. — To Correspondents, 



fted. The only verdure now left 5n the hedges is in the bramble, the Ivy, nnJ holly, xiie 

 elms ire nearly ftripped. In the forefts, and on the waltc lands, the fern (pifrii ajuWna of 

 Linnaeus) is liecomc perfectly dry and brown, and the farmers are bufily cmpLyed in cuttiug 

 and carrying it aw.iy for litter. 



The wheat is all, or very nearly all, fown. 



The ivy leaved fhap-dragon (anterrhwum cyinbal/iria) continues ftill in flower on the garden 

 ■walls. 'I he flovrcrs of the arbutus tree {arbutus unsdo) drop off every day in great abundance. 

 On the fandy fca-coafts, the upper parts of fome of the fpikes of the fea-rocket {bunias cakik) 

 have not yet put forth all their flov.ers. 



Nov. 1. The leaves drop from the medl.ir trees ; and the fruit is gathered, and laid up to 

 ke rijiened by the winter's cold. The fruit of the fpindletree; (e-vinyinus eutofaus) 15 ripe ; 

 and, Nov. 16th, the grca^ter part of the feed is ihed. It is furprifing'that this very fingular 

 and beautiful ihrub, although the natural produftion of our own country, is not more cul- 

 tivated in gardens and plantations than we nu.v fee it. Fruit of the buck-berry tree {riam- 

 ausfrangula) ripe. 



0&. '26. The fmall birds begin to congregate. The fliylark ftill fings. — Nov. 1. The 

 Royfton crows arc returned, and may i)e feen in confidcrable numbers about the fea-fands, 

 picking up fmall ihell filh, and any wreck of animal fubftances left there by the ebbing of 

 the tides. 



There are very few butterflies, or any other kinds of lepiJopterous infefts to be now feen 

 fjyinj! about: the bees, however, are ftill employed in laying up their winter's ftock ; and 

 beetle:, or coleopterous infects, have not yet retired into thiir winter retreats. 



Nov. 18. I am }uA informed, that laft niglit a flioal of herrings approached the coaft ; and 

 that a few of them were caught by the fifhernien. If the wind continues noitherly, and is 

 not too boiftcvous, they think it pro'jablc that a confiderable quantity may be caught in the 

 courfe of a fevir days. Tbefe fifh, like fome others, generally approach the lliores again* 

 the wind. JlnniJJhire. 



JMKTKOi?OI,OGr(":AL RliPORT. 



GbfcrTatio7ie nn the Slof.c of the ]rc<Uhcr, from the 24th of Odoher, te the Zitk 

 uf Norrmter 18t»(3, indiijive, TvfoMiki iv'.ir. of St. Paul's. 



£eiomctcr. 



Highefl;30.r>0. Nov. 8. Wind N.W. 

 Loweit ii9.10. Nov. 3. & 22. WinUW.&N.W. 



Tb/rmoitteter. 

 Higheft 60'. Oa. 27. 'Wind S.E. 

 Loweft Jl. Nov. 23. Wind N.VV. 



On the 6th in f /" Early on the e.'Jd the 



'\ \ thermometer- was as 



Crcstcft f^ J low as 31", and o« 



variatian in I 10''. <, the 24th at the fanis 



a-i hours. 3 i Kour it ftookl at 50'. 



/■ On the 6th in 

 "S Vtiic morning the 



Greatefl ' 01 hun- Jmercury Hood at 

 variation in i chcdtlis of x CS). 07 ; and on the 

 24 hours. } an inch. A next day, at the 

 r fame fiour it was 

 ;, as high as 30.28. 

 The quahtity of rain fillen lincc our laft report is equal to 6 fi;) inches in height. 

 The prcfent month has been much warmer than what we ufuallv experience at this feafon ; 

 the average height ot the thcrmonietcr'has been nejrly 'M'P for tb.s whole month, whereas, 

 for the fame period laft year it was '17° ; in the year 1304, it was 4C.°7 ; in the year 1803, 

 it was only XA.'i ; and in 180'i it was 46^.4. The mean height of the barometer is 29.3., 

 but the ch.inges iii the denlily of the atmnfphere have.becn frequent, though r.ot often ftriking : 

 on this of thL" metropolis we have had five thick fogs, and much gloomy weather ; the num- 

 ber of what may be called brilliant days, has been fmall in comparifon of the others. Se- 

 veral days have been completely wet, and on tltree mornings we have feen ice : the thickeft 

 was or Sunday the'i.id. The cold was however accompanied v\ith a very v.'liite froft, and^betorc 

 ten o'clock the wind vccj-ed t^ due well, and the weather changed to rain, which continued 

 the whole day. The wind has blown from the wefteily part of the heavens twenty four of 

 ♦ twenty-five days out of the thirty-oue. 



To CdliRESl'OADEATS, Sfc. ~~ "' 



WE are obliged to our old Correfponde!;t Aqu-riuS, for hisCcrr.munlcarion on the'Means of 

 obtaining W.-^tek in '1 imes <f Scarcity ; we .hope that Others of our Coirefpondeots uill 

 favour us with tl^eir Cpinons on a SubjcClt fo linle u,;d-;r;'iood, yet oi lo much Confcquence 

 to' the Comfort, Health, and fr^ifperity of many parts of the Country. 



. The Editoii o;' the Monthly Magazine has been defircus,. fmce its firft commencement, t» 

 prefeiit tohis Rcaocvsai aL-liniile Pajie of the Wanufcripts foiind in theKu.iis of Herculaneum. 

 After many Jirfurts.. he h;is, at length,, fu iceeJeJ in praciiring a I'age of thofe MSS., and a 

 Facfip-iileo. it would have been inkrced ui the prcfent Number, hut tor the temporary Claira 

 of the f/i,ip,of ti^e. S"e.it.of_ vVar. It ;.vJn, ho.wev.',. be given in ^the Number to ne publi^had 

 on ihefirrt 01 January, accorrpahied l)y i'he elabor.ue Dill'itt ition of a le-irncd Antiquary. 



We aie piomifed, by •■"yc-wit:'cnes, lomr interi ui.ig Details o the Ravages coinmitted bf 

 the Frencli Armies in ^axony ar.d pi jiTia, aud thuii b« ai)lc to prei'^nt thcio to Our headers 

 ki our nmt, c^r tiis (i^luwiag, Majjazioe. 



