Mr. PiiVs Remarks on the Weather at Carlisle. 



1823.] 



which he treats. He has, moreover, 

 gono to fiir greater lengths than any 

 other ancient writer who has come 

 down to us ; and it is to be hoped, for 

 the honour of iinrnan nature, that, as 

 we are in possession of nothing so 

 abominable as his infamous verses to 

 his wife, there never has existed, and 

 never will exist, any parallel to them. 

 Nor aro his indecencies of rare occur- 

 rence, as in Horace ; shrouded be- 

 neath a veil of studied ambiguity, as is 

 frequently the case with those of Ovid ; 

 or distinguished by that seductive 

 sweetness of language which Catullus 

 but too skilfully employed : Martial's 

 literary outrages on morality are in- 

 terspersed through the greater part 

 of his pages without any attempt at 

 disguise, and generally conveyed in 

 language as coarse and inelegant as 

 the snl)jccts themselves are revolting. 

 But enough of this part of his charac- 



19 



ter, which could not with propriety 

 have been omitted, nor adverted to 

 but in terms of strong indignation. 

 His Epigrams must be considered as 

 valuable to the student, on account of 

 the numerous illustrations that many 

 parts of them afford of Roman cus- 

 toms and manners, as they existed at 

 the period at which he wrote ; but it 

 has been very properly remarked, tiiat 

 the book should be read with extreme 

 caution which can corrupt the purity 

 of morals, and initiate the votaries of 

 virtue in the mysteries of vice. Of 

 its author, whatever opinion may be 

 entertained of his talent as a poet, his 

 character as a man mast be unhesi- 

 tatingly pronounced equally odious 

 and despicable. 



Among the numerous editions of 

 Martial, we may mention as the best 

 those of Smids. Amst. 1701; and that 

 of Raderus, ia folio, Mogunt. 1627. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT /oj' the last TWELVE MONTHS at CARLISLE. 



January • • 

 February.. 

 Mai ell • • ■ 

 April .... 



Way 



Jnno •••• 



J"ly 



August •• 

 September 

 October .. 

 Noveiuher 

 December 



THERMOMETER 



High Low. -Mean 



40- 



42-45 



44- 



46- 



.53-4 



61-14 



58-5 



58 3 



bi' 



49-5 



45-8 



36- 



Ann. Mean 49. 



BAROMETER. 



Higli. Low. Mean 



SO'So 

 30-65 

 30-53 

 30-46 

 .30-44 

 30-37 

 30-20 

 30-25 

 30-41 

 30 06 

 30-13 

 jO'65 



C;9-43 

 28-70 

 29-10 

 29-14 

 S!9-70 

 29-72 

 ?9-43 

 29-35 

 a9-43 

 29 07 

 28-65 

 26'47 



3008 



29-87 



29 843 



29-94 



30-02 



30-10 r 



29 83 



29-858 



29-98 



29-60 



29-.534 



30-03 



Annual Mean 29-89 



3 " 



►>3 



CO = 



1 53 

 J-87 

 ♦•01 

 1-90 

 131 

 105 

 5-S3 

 5-30 

 1-33 

 406 

 4-31 

 2-35 



35-38 

 Total. 



178 

 Tot. 



234 

 Tot. 



E. 

 N.E. 



14 



131 

 Tot. 



General RemarliS mi the Weather, ^'c. ob- 

 served at Carlisle during the year 1822. 

 Y^^UARY. — The first nine days 

 •^ were very variable, with showers 

 of snow, sleet, and rain ; and intervals 

 of frost in tiie nights : when all the 

 surrounding mountains were covered 

 with snow. The remaindei- was re- 

 markably mild, and generally lair and 

 pleasant. 



February — was mild, wet, and often 

 extremely stormy. On the 1st, a most 

 violent and deslructive hurricane, from 

 tiie south west, commenced in tho 

 night, and continued without inter- 

 mission, with torrents of rain, during 



the whole of the following day. On 

 the morning of tho 3d the Kiver Eden 

 was swelled several feet higher than 

 ever remembered by the oldest person 

 in this city or neighbourhood. The 

 destmclion of property adjoining the 

 river, during its whole course, is incal- 

 culable. 'J'he wind was so extremely 

 violent, that few houses in this city or 

 neighbourhood escaped injury, more 

 or less. Some intervals of fair and 

 pleasant weatlier occurred during the 

 latter half of the month. 



March — which in this climate is 

 generally marked by dry parching 

 easterly winds, was this year perfectly 



the 



