22 Mr. Pitt's Remarks on the Weather at Carlisle. 



affections. But his greatest inconve 



nience has been pioduced by the pie- 

 valence of the easterly winds towards 

 the conimencement of tlie spring 

 montlis, about which period his eyes 

 have in general suffered most. I'his 

 present season the disease has conti- 

 nued longer than usual, and it has 

 assumed another character, by real 

 objects being presented to his view in 

 a double and indistinct appearance : 

 such, for instance, as the prongs of a 

 fork appearing to the eye (when placed 

 at a small distance,) more in number 

 than what they actually are; trees, 

 railings, &e. appear at a distance di- 

 vided into two, on approaching nearer, 

 a streak of light appears in the middle 

 of the objects, till, on closer inspec- 

 tion, (by coming still nearer to them,) 

 they assume (heir own proper shape. 



[Feb. J, 



serious consequences should result 

 from his disease, which might even- 

 tually deprive him of one of his 

 greatest sources of pleasure — read- 

 ing, (for at present his ciiief inconve- 

 nience arises from weariness of the 

 eyes, not from any ohstruction of 

 sight,) he is anxious to be favoured 

 with satisfactory information on the 

 following points : — 



1st. Is tlie disease one of a nature 

 which admiis of a coiiiplete cure? and, if 

 so, vviiat a\e (he most effectual means con- 

 ducive 10 iliat eiid? 



?d. What [Jiecuiiiions aie essentially 

 necessary 10 be observed to prevent any 

 aegravalion or inrrease of the complaint, 

 either as to diet, regimen, <5l'c. ? 



3d. A statement of the immediate 

 cause of the double appearance of objects 

 to the eje ? 



Any other information, bearing on 



As the person for whom the above the subject in rjuestion, which your 



information is solicited is much de- correspondents may have it in theiv 



voted to I'terary pursuits, and is natu- power to aJford, will be acceptable, 

 rally apprehensive lest any more Gloucester Place. K. C. 



For the Monthl?/ Magazine. 



METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT /or tlie last TWELVE MONTHS at CARLISLE. 



General Remarks on Weather, §-c. ob- 

 served at Carlisle during the i/ea>-1823. 

 JANUARY.— Ihe weather, during 

 ^ the greater part of this month, was 

 the most severe that has been expe- 

 rienced for many years, — excepting 

 five or six days in the beginning, and 

 three or four at the end, of the month; 

 the whole of the remainder was in- 

 tense frost, with frequent heavy falls 

 of snow, which in the vicinity of this 

 city amounted to about one foot in 

 depth, but in the surrounding country, 



in many places, it was upwards of two 

 yards; hence the public roads were 

 much blocked up, and travelling 

 greatly impeded. In the evening of 

 the 18lh, the thermometer was as low 

 as 11° ; in the morning of the 21st, 12°; 

 and the average for the whole month, 

 31-7. 



February — was on the whole ex- 

 tremely changeable and unpleasant; 

 some intervals of severe frost occurred, 

 and frequent falls of snow. On the 

 morning of the 5tb, the thermometer 



