184 Observations on the late excessive cold Weather. 
we be with an intense frost; the thermometer being now at 
ive : 
Friday 9th.—Half past eight o’clock A.M. 
Wind S..--Barometer 29:30. Thermometer at zero ! 
The sun bright. A brilliant sky. Not a cloud to be seen in 
the hemisphere. The air feeling intensely cold. 
Ten o’clock P.M.—The frost has continued very severe the 
whole day. 
The thermometer rose to 10° at noon, and is now at the same 
degree. 
Saturday 10th.—Nine o’clock A.M. 
Wind SE. Barometer 29°34 r, Thermometer 10°. Atmo- 
sphere rather dull. 
Ten o’clock P.M.—A little snow fell this evening. The 
thermometer rose to 22° during the day, and is-now at 26°, 
The weather continued with the common cold of winter till 
Thursday the 15th of the same month, when it began to thaw, 
and the barometer, which had been stationary at 29-91 for three 
days, began to fall in the evening. The next day was very hazy, 
and the thaw continued with a falling barometer, and the ther- 
mometer at 42°. 
f leave it for others who have more leisure and abilities than 
myself, to settle the apparent discrepancy in the accounts that 
have been published respecting the intense cold with which this 
kingdom has lately been visited. But I must confess that one 
of the motives which has induced me to give this public testi- 
mony of the facts that I noticed, was an observation in the Me- 
teorological Report, published in the Monthly Magazine for 
February, where the reporter boldly asserts, that he is ‘‘ quite 
sure that those who talk of the thermometer being ut 6° or 26° 
below the freczing point are under a mistake.” 
Now, sir, I do not pretend to be either wiser or more accurate 
than others who have paid attention to this subject, but am 
“© quite sure’ that 1 was wide awake when | examined my 
thermometer ;—aye, and at the time too when | noted in my 
journal the facts above related. And having been in the habit 
of making meteorological observations for nearly 30 years, it is 
very probable that [ may have acquired some portion of exact- 
ness, if not of facility in reading off figures from the graduated 
seale of a philosophical instrument, at least within half a dozen 
degrees! And I do aver, that at half past eight o’clock on the 
morning of Friday the 9th ult., Fahrenheit’s thermometer stood 
at zero! and as the sun rose with splendour at a quarter past 
seven o’clock on that morning, I have but little hesitation in be- 
lieving that at two hours before sun-rise the thermometer was 
some degrees below zero ! 
Recollecting 
