200 ; 
Meteorological Report. 
market, Beef fetches from 45. 6d. to 5s. 64. per stoue;—-Mutton, 4s. 6d. to 5s. Bd. Veale 
5s, to 6s. ;—and Pork, 3s. to 6s. 
The prices of hay and straw are much as in our Jast.—Hay fetches from 5l. to 61, 18863. 
Straw, from 11. 19s. to 21’ 5s.;—and Clover, from 61. 4s. to 71, 16s. 
Hops continue promising in most places. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of July, to the 24th of 
August, 1808, mclusive, Two Miles N.W. of St. Paut’s. 
Barometer. 
Highest 30 18, Aug. 23 & 24. Wind N.E. 
Lowest 29.50. July 28. Wind N.W. 
‘ ~ This small 
ne 2-tenths ) ce occurred 
yatiation in 4 ofaninch between the mor- 
a ~ . - . 
; -ning of the 27th 
44 hours ) 5 
Thermometer. 
Higheft79. July 25& \ug. 4.Wind N. &S.W3 
Lowest 52. Aug. 24. Wind N.U. 
On the 1th in the 
Greateft ? 10° (one the mercury 
variation = s was at 64° and on the’ 
24 hours. 12th at the same hoor _ 
it was only 54°. 
former it was 29.7 
onthe latter 29.5. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month, is equal'to 4.67 inches in depth. The average, 
height of the barometer is 29.8935; and that of the thermometer 64.67. The changes in tem- 
perature and density of the atmosphere, have been but trifling The quantity of tain, which is 
muchabove-the average quantity tora ninth, fell almost all in the early part of the month 5 
there have been however eleven days in which there has been rain; but on the whole, there 
was probably rever known a more favourable season for the harvest. The wind has been 
variabhe, and sumetimes it has blown cold lor the season. . 
Astronomical Anticipations. : ‘$3 
We have a full moon on the 4th instant, about eleven in the evening; and new moos on 
the YOth at helf past seven in the morning. The full moon happening so early in the month, 
it will not be the true harvest-moon. ‘This is always the fulP moon neurest to the autumnal © 
equinox, or that which happens nearest to the 22d of September. It is denominated the 
harvest-moon, because it rises about the full for several successive nights, with but a small 
difference in the times of her rising, and happening ‘about the harvest-season, is supposed to he 
perticularly favourable, by lengthening day-light, to the getting in the fruits of the earth, 
This smali difference, which is on the average about fifteen or twenty minutes only, while at 
other times in the month it is sometimes more than an hour anda quarter, occurs ‘every 
month, but as it dues not happen at the full, no notice is taken ofit. For this year the full 
moon for the piesent, and that for the next, are almost equally favourable, and might be both 
denominated harvest mhoons. We shal) now, foran evening or twe, trace the moon’s course 3 
onthe 9th she rises four minutee alter eight: she is then in about the 13° of Leo, and 
nearly inthe ecliptic: as she rises in the heavens, she will be found about mid way between 
the Scar Alpha inthe Ram’s head, and Menkar inCetus. “Atnine she is 53° from: Markab 
in the Pegasus. On the 10th she rises scon after the Pleiades, passing shortly after an ima~ 
ginary line drawn from these stars to the Menkar; and at nine she will be 65° nearly from 
Markab, having in twenty-four hours travelled ebout 12° in her course. - On the 12th, she 
. & 28th inst. on the 
’ 
 sises a little before, and above Aldebaran, and as she mounts in the heavens, Orion seems to 
foltow her with great splendour. 
Mercary is a morning star till the dith. Venus is an evening star, but not yet visible, 
Jupiter will be a fine object for the telescope. Eclipses of his first satellite. will take place 
onthe 6t5, 13th, 15th, 2d, and O9th, s . 
Phe dial, and well regulared clycks and, watches should, at the beginning of the, month be 
together, but on the last day the clocks will be more than ten minutes after the sun.: 
fest l, - 
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