236 Meteorological Observations 
of wind from the westward*, Fine afternoon; irregular 
features of the different modifications, as in all showery 
weather ; stars clear, and sky light in the clear intervals by 
night. Thermometer 11 P.M. 54°. Barometer risen to 
29.82. 
July 27.—Warm showery weather still, the early part of 
the day was free from rain. The colour of the horizontal 
haze above the sunset was pale. Barometer much risen 
during the day: at 10-P.M. it was 30.10. Therm. in the 
day 72°, at 10 at night 57°. 
July 28.—Fair morning, a shower or two in the middle 
of the day; fine warm evening. The clouds as usual in 
showery weather. The owls hooted by night, which prog- 
nosticated fine weather. 
July 29.—Fine hot day, without any clouds; the hori- 
zon in the morning was misty, but it cleared as the day 
advanced. Therm. at its highest was 76°, and was 70° at 
6 P.M., with Barometer up at 30.28. Wind SW. The 
quantum of evaporation between noon and six o’clock 
equalled one-tenth of an inch. 
July 30.—Fine hot day, a few small cwmuli formed, and 
aiso some plain ezrrus breaking out into cirrocumlus; in 
the evening loose and small detached features of this 
cloud were in a Jow station, and red with the sinking sun. 
In the south-east long cirrostrati, which had somewhat the 
appearance of eels, being near the horizon, threw out a sort 
of eumulostratus above their upper part, but the whole 
subsided at night; a caudate meteor appeared about 10 
P.M. Therm. midday 61°, at midnight 64°. Barometer 
fallen to 30.02. Wind SW. 
July 31.—Fair hot day, with varying westerly gales, and 
cumuli with some flatter and clevated masses, and also cirré 
in fibres in the morning and middie of the day. Maximum 
of thermometer 78°. Barometer at the time 30.14. Eva- 
porauion from six on Thursday evening to two this after- 
noon was one quarter of an inch. As the afternoon ad- 
vaneed cumulostratus formed, and it and a sort of confused 
Jarge kind of cirrocumulus obscured the sky, while under- 
neath LE saw dark flocky cumulus. The wind fell. Barometer 
stationary. The evaporation between two and six this 
evening only one-fiftieth of an inch. 
* The gale and showers seemed sometimes to come from SW, at others 
W, and even WNW sometimes ; they were very hard, and the augmenta- 
tion of the strength of the streams seemed simultaneous with the change of 
their direction. : 
August 
