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204 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio, for 1845. 
The mean temperature of the year 1845 was 52739, 
which is about the average for a series of years. ‘The Author at 
nature has so arranged the seasons that the amount of heat in 
any one year does not materially differ from that of another, 
although to a careless observer it may seem not to be so. it is 
Shemimes distributed in a different manner; one spring being 
warmer than another, and one summer much euialen; thus causing 
an exceeding great variety in the seasons, all for wise and benefi- 
cent purposes. Yet amidst all this diversity, the wisdom of God 
is displayed in the exceeding regularity and certainty of the laws 
which govern the temperature of the year, not only in the same, 
but in different climates. “ Summer and winter, seed-time and 
harvest,” we are assured, shall regularly return so long as the 
earth continueth. 
The amount of rain and melted snow was 33-90 inches, being 
about 6 inches less than the mean annual average for this climate. 
Here also the same beautiful laws which regulate the heat, govern 
the quantity of rain which is needed to supply the necessities 0 
plants and animals, being nicely adapted to the moderate or rapid 
manner in which it is evaporated by the heat of the climate. In 
the cold regions of the north, a few inches supply all the wants 
of the vegetable kingdom ; while in the tropics, it is poured down 
in torrents, amounting in some places to twelve or fourteen feet 
annually. Who but an atheist could fail, in this law, to see the 
guiding and directing hand of the great Architect of the Heavens. 
Winter—The mean temperature of the winter months 
was 36°60°, which is more than two degrees warmer than in 
1844. ‘The mercury was at no time down to zero; the coldest 
day being the 7th of February, when it fell to eight degrees 
above. The Ohio river was not frozen over, and steamboats 
continued to run all winter, with the exception of a few days 
about the 20th of December. No ice was formed of sufficient 
thickness for laying up in ice-houses, and only a scanty sup- 
ply was procured from floating fragments in the Ohio, at the 
breaking up of the Allegheny, in February. ‘The amount of 
snow was small, the greatest quantity at any one time being 
three inches, whieh was in December—it being remembered 
that in making up the temperature of a winter, this month is 
always attached to that of the following year, where it properly 
belongs. 
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