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new building on Friday, the 19th of November: they are of 

 the red Peterhead granite, and the shafts twenty-one feet six 

 inches long, in one piece. It is intended to have them highly 

 polished; and as they are the produce of our own country, and 

 superior to any brought from Egypt and deposited at the 

 Museum, they are interesting in a national point of view. 



Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Pomona, at Hart field in Sussex, 

 continued from November 22 to December 17. 



Nov. 22. St. Cecilia. — Prodigious quantity of rain, the 

 marshes still flooded. Bulfinches already numerous. 



Nov. 25. St. Catherine. — Fair day. Tussilago fragrant 

 begins to blow. Viburnum Tinus in flower. 



Nov. 26. — White frost. I observed today a number of Linnets 

 devouring the seeds on the old standing dry stalks of Oeno- 

 thera biennis in the garden. The Anemone hortensis is in 

 flower today— a circumstance that not unfrequently occurs in 

 the winter months. There are also flowers left here and there 

 on Marygolds, Leopard's-bane, and other plants. 



Nov. 27. — The Rooks and Daws very clamorous as they pass 

 over to and from their pastures in the morning and evening. 

 Wet weather. 



Nov. 29. — A change in the weather this evening, which 

 was indicated by head-aches. The wind fell, and the sky be- 

 came very clear, so that I had an excellent opportunity of ob- 

 serving both Saturn and Jupiter soon after their rising*. Some 

 Polyanthuses and Primroses in blow. 



Nov. 30. — Hard rain the whole day. 



Dec. 1. — The marshes and low meadows flooded. Wild- 

 fowl seen in the water. 



Dec. 2. — A clear morning and stormy afternoon again fol- 

 lowed by a night of heavy and continual rain, which produced 

 a great flood in the meadows of the Medway. 



Dec. 6. — Fair day: from the motion, however, of a paper kite 

 flying in the air I predicted rain, which fell in torrents at 10 

 p. M.f Polyanthuses blow here and there. 



Dec. 12. — Weather at length fine, open, and mild: the Hal- 

 cyon 



* I noticed again tonight the phaenomenon of brilliant colours produced 

 by looking at the stars with a vibrating telescope. Aldebaran showed the 

 most glowing red in great abundance. Capella red, blue, yellow, and black 

 interstitial spaces. 1 cannot account for the fact that the planets never pro- 

 duce this phenomenon. It looks as if there were some great difference be- 

 tween borrowed and original light. Sec the Phil. Mr/g. for last March, 



■f Prognostication <>f the change of wind. — Having frequently amused my- 

 self on fine Sunday evenings in summer with a very large paper kite, 

 in order to watch the different currents of wind in the air, I had occasion 



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