238 Meteorological Summary for Feb. 1826.—Hampshire. 
January, March, June, October, and November, were rather 
windy months, the others comparatively calm. 
The spring and summer seasons were healthy, but the win- 
ter and autumn were sickly, in consequence of the sudden 
changes that occurred in the temperature and quality of the 
air; as it must be acknowledged that health, or sickness, and 
also the spirits of the human mind, are materially influenced 
by the good or bad state of the air we inhale, and the means 
employed to keep the body of an uniform temperature through- 
out the vicissitudes of the seasons in the variable climate of 
England and her united kingdoms. 
Results of a Meteorological Journal for February 1826, kept at 
the Observatory of the Royal Academy, Gosport, Hants. 
General Observations. 
This month has been mild for the season, but generally 
windy and wet, agreeing with the old proverb “ February fill 
dike.” It has rained, more or less, on 20 days, and the ther- 
mometer a few feet from the ground did not recede once to 
the freezing point. In consequence of the constant humid air, 
very little evaporation, and the quantity of rain, the ground 
was saturated nearly the whole month, and is now in good 
condition for an early produce of the approaching spring. 
The average temperature of the external air this month, is 
24 degrees higher than in February 1825, and nearly 33 de- 
grees higher than the average of that month for the last ten 
years. ‘There is a difference in the mean temperature be- 
tween last month and this of 104 degrees ! 
The temperature of spring water has increased upwards of 
one degree this month, and is 1} degree higher than at this 
time last year. This is certainly an unusual circumstance in 
February, as the temperature of spring water almost invariably 
decreases till the vernal equinox, and sometimes later. The 
last two or three days having been dry, and the temperature 
of the ground increasing, there was therefore a sudden appear- 
ance of the fruit and other trees breaking into bud. 
Although the wind has prevailed half the month from the 
S.W. and W., yet the result of the barometer is above the 
general mean indication, arising no doubt from the closer 
union of the atmospherical particles, and a lower temperature 
in the superior stratum of air not far above the disturbing 
force of the late S. W. gales of wind. 
The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come 
within our observations this month, are, one parhelion, one 
solar and one lunar halo, three meteors, and eight gales of 
wind, or days on which they have prevailed ; namely, one from 
S.E. and seven from S.W. Nu- 
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