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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Obsereations.on the State af the Weather, from the 24th of May to the 24th off 
June, 1808, inclusive, Two Miles N.W. of St. Punl’s, 
. Barometer. Thermometer. : 7 
Highest 30.35, June 28. Wind N. We Higheft 93°. Joly 14. WindS. Ey 
Lowest 29.74. Jury 20. Wind S.W. “Lowest 53°. July 1. Wiod N. E. 
The mereury 
Greatest ) 2 tenths } tah § 29.9 ee Greater 2 
variation in { ofaninch. rb “ F artic variation m4 81°, but on the 94th 
#1 hours buc on the 20th | v4 hours.’ it was uo higher than 
it was no higher 
70°. 
than 29.7. . 
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thermometer was at 
( On the 934 the 
414°. 
The rain fllen since our account is equal to 4 inches in depth, of which the greater part fell 
en the 24th and 25:h instant: previously to the 24th we had scarcely more than thiee showers 
during the month. Never was there a more propitious hay harvest, he rains now com> 
menc-d (July 26) where the weight and violence are not sufficient to crush the standing 
corn, will be of much service to the ground, which, hy the late unusual beat, had nearly 
Bost every trace of verdure. In the metropolis the first heavy showers were on the 21st; at 
this place, though at so short a distance, we had not rain sufficierit to lay the dust of thie road¢ 
till Sunday the 24th. - On that and the 25th we had many violent and lasting rains, accom- 
panied occasionally with thunder and lightning. In different parts of the kingdom, and even 
at a short distance south of London, the storms have been truly tremendous, and accompanied 
with much mischief. 
The leading meteorological feature of this month has been the extreme heat of the 19th, 
13th, and 14th days. We have paid much aitention to the state of the atmosphere, as the 
Reports in this work will shew, since January 1802, and remember nothing approathing to 
the eat of the days referred to. ; 
In the summer of 1802 the greatest heat was. 85° July 3. 
: 1803... cercedceesecees+ BOF" August 30. 
: 85° Jane 25, 
TODA 6 sie A wel aidalats 6 « 84° August 3. 
1805 wo recececccccccess 79° July 4. 
*¥ 1BQGrikek 105 Weds sees os BIS". June 14. 
: 1807 2. eee eececeee ven 89° July 18 and August 13. 
We have used the same thermometer through the whole period, nor has the place been 
changed; it hangs on the outside of 2 window frame looking N. E. In this situation on the 
22th it was as high as 883°, on the 13th 91°, and on the 14th it was at the astonishing height 
of 95° at which it continued nearly.an hour. Ac the timber yard near Westminster Bridge 
we were informed it was at the same height. ‘In ashop in Holborn on the 15th we saw the 
thermometer at 89%, at a time that the sho appeared to the festings very cool in comparison 
of the external air, 
. Mr.Capel Lofft, of Troston, writes, that on the 12th and 13th his thertiometer stood 
both days at. 91°, and his observations were confirmed by those of a neiglibour; and at Bury 
St. Edmunds the thermometer was at 95° on the 12th, and at 95° on'the 13th. Mr. Lofft 
observes, that ‘* twenty-seven years observation, .very little interrupted, bas néver given me 
an egual resylt in two successive days, or even in a single day.” At Troston the greatest 
peat was between twelve and two: it was not sointhis place. Here it was the hottest about 
four o'clock ; and this, as Mr. Lofft observes, is usually the hottest part of the day in this 
jatitude, inthe months of july and August. The average heat for the month is about 68°, 
and the average height of the barometer is 30.07. ‘ 
Astronomical Anticipations. 
We have full moon on the 6th and new moon on the 21st of August: oa the 7th she ap- 
proaches the planet Jupiter, and on the 8th Jupiter will rise after the muon, but on this and 
the next evening they will be interesting objects for the telescope; as is also Saturn, which 
- is to be Seen in the westetn part of the-heavens. Saturn’s ring makes a fine appearance at 
present. The Herschel may likewise, with the aid: of a yond glass, be scen in the same 
quarter. Towards the middie of the month, Mercury will be visible before sun-rise. Venus 
33 still an evening star, but too near the sun to be visible. ‘T’o those possessed of good glassésy 
we may observe that Jupiter's first satellite will be eclipsed, visible here, en the 6th, at 16m. 
past one in the morning ;. onthe 13th, at 10m. past three; on the 14th, at 39m. past nine in 
the evening; onthe ist, at 35m. past eleven; and on the 29ch, at 27m. past one in the 
morning. 
VErratas—In the quotation from Euripides, No. 172, p 497, tor *< Ao wat Aogsov,” read 
§6 w gas Ackiov;’? andin the sixth line above, for ‘* siccavit,” read ** exsigcavit s 
In the Vescription ef Lord Elgin’s Antiquities, p- 519, line 9, for €¢ Dr. Richard Worsl»y, 
read “ Sir Richard Worslcy.”—-Also, p, 520, line 33, for *¢ Tassier’s,” read Tassic’s.”” 
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