76 Paients.— Meteorology. 
either by itself, or with any other material with which yarn may 
be beneiicially used in various branches of manufacture.—l4th 
Dee.—2 months. SF 
To Joseph White, of Leeds, in the county of York, millwright, 
for his improvements In steam engines.—i4th Dec.—6 months. 
To William Allamus Day, of Poplar, in the county of Middle- 
sex, for his method of extracting all the gross or mucilaginous 
matter from Finks or Greenland blubber*produced from whales 
when boiled into oil ; which method not only renders the oil so 
boiled more free from its usual rancid smell and taste, but in a 
great degree adds to its burning and inflammable qualities.— 
20th Dec.—2 months. 
METEOROLOGY. 
During the present month the fall of snow has been greater 
than for many years, and the thermometer has been lower gene- 
rally throughout the kingdom than has ever been known. 
A: Basingstoke, Hampshire, at 7 a.m. on the 10th Fahren- 
heit’s thermometer was at —3°; at 10 a.m. at 8°+ ; at7 
p- m, at 3°+. 
January 9, in the morning at Edinburgh. . 24°4 
15, at Kelso : ; . : 825 
17, at Glasgow, at 8.30 a. m. ‘ Ppt ks 
17, inthe fields near Glasgow , . oom 
The following observations on Fahrenheit’s Thermometer 
were made at Croft House, near Bradford, at alittle before nine 
o’clock, on the mornings of each of the following days : 
January 4.......3  12°+4 | January 14 /e....7.5 1504 
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The Register Thermometer at Jones’s, in Oxendon-street, on 
the night between the 9th and 10th, was at 7 degrees Fahrenheit 5 
on the same night, at Petersham, it was at 2 degrees, which is 
the greatest cold we have had since between the 24th and 25th of 
December 1798, when the Register in Tilney-street was at 
zero; Sir George Shuckburgh’s, in Park-street, 2 degrees below 
zero; Mr. Cavendish’s, at Clapham, 7 below—and near Maid~ 
stone, 1] or 12 below zero, which was the greatest cold ever ob- 
served in England, 
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