236 Meteorological Observations made at Cambridge. 
Feb, 25.—Clear cold ‘frosty weather, and very bright night. 
Wind E. SE. 
Fel. 26.—The same clear cold weather, without a cloud, con- 
tinues. Wind gentle, E. and SE. 
Fel, 27.—Clear cold day. Cirrus approaching to the nature 
of cirrostratus aloft. 
Feb. 28,—Clouded, with warmer air, and falling barometer ; 
some small rain towards night. Moon seen at times, with some 
irregular appearances of cirrus, cirrostratus of the rounded cirro= 
cumulative form, and of cirrocumulus. Barom. down to 28.82, 
March \.—Rainy day, and warmer ; clear night. 
March 2.—Snow showers; light flimsy clouds by night. 
Barom. at midnight so low as 28.80. 
March 3.—Barom. rising again; cold and unpleasant day. 
March 4,—Cold raw wet day, wind easterly and snowing. 
March 5.—The snow lay thinly, and continued to fall; most 
unpleasant easterly wind. 
March 6.—The same sort of weather ; clear by times. 
March 7.—Snow on the ground and falling, E. and N. 
March 8.—Cold wet snowy weather, easterly wind. 
March 9.—The same snowy wet weather, E. and N. 
March 10.—Very small spicule of snow falling early, when 
the blue sky appeared bright above it; very wet snowy unplea- 
sant day. Easterly. 
March 11.—Snow still lays and falls by times. E. N. NW. 
March \12.—Cold cloudy day. E. wind. 
March 13.—Cold and cloudy with snow. N. and E. 
March 14.—Clouded and cold, raw and frosty air. E. and 
variable. 
March \5.—The same cold frosty air, with snow on the ground, 
and E. wind. ; 
The present period has exhibited an example of long con- © 
tinued frost and snow, which has rarely happened this time of 
year, in the memory of persons now living. Abundance of sea 
fowl have been shot in the marshes. A few days ago a man at 
Wisbeach, near Ely, shot four swans out of a large flight passing 
over that place on the wing. They appeared to be the wild 
swans, (Anates Cycni fer?) for, in one which I dissected, I found 
the trachea entering the hollow of the sternum, and reflected 
again over it into tlie chest, ’ 
Bennet College, Cambridge, 
March 15, 1814. Tuomas FoRSTER. 
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