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and Fareham lakes, branching from the liarbour, were firmly frozen over 

 this and the preceding day ; and on the reflux of the tide, immense masses 

 of salt-water ice presented a snowy aspect about the shores to the distance 

 of two or three miles, as far as the eye could perceive. 



In the morning of the 6th there was much rime on the ground, &c. with 

 faint sunshine; opposite winds in the day, and a little snow by night. During 

 the morning of the 7th the sky was overcast, the clouds lowering, and the 

 wind from every quarter of the compass, with a rising temperature. In 

 the afternoon a gale sprung up from the S.W., which caused a sudden 

 breaking up of the frost and a very rapid thaw, when a great quantity of ice 

 in a connected chain upwards of a mile in length was carried out of the 

 harbour; and copious streams of water ran down the wainscots and 

 walls in apartments without fire. The successive masses of ice which had 

 broken away from the lakes and the shores of Southampton river, had 

 also a novel appearance in going out with the tide this and the two pre- 

 ceding days. 



From this time to the 21st, the nights were generally frosty; and the 

 last seven days the temperature of the air increased with a moist S.W. 

 wind, accompanied with fogs, mild light rains, and spring-like weather at 

 intervals. The difference between the temperature of the 2nd and 26th 

 was 32 degrees. 



The large lunar halo that appeared in the evening of the 28th, was re- 

 markable for the breadth of its edge, which was upwards of three degrees, 

 and of a faint vapourish colour; within the halo a close yellow corona ap- 

 peared round the moon, which, with Aldebaran and the Pleiades, formed 

 an isosceles triangle, Aldebaran being to th.e southward. 



The atmospheric and meteoric phcenomena that have come within our 

 observations this month, are, four solar and four lunar halos, lightning and 

 thunder early in the morning of the 23rd, and six gales of wind, or days on 

 which they have prevailed ; namely, two from the North-east, three from 

 the South-west, and one from the West. 



REMARKS. 



London.— Yehruary 1. Clear and frosty: stormy at night, with snow. 

 2 — 5. Clear and frosty. 6. Cloudy and cold. 7. Drizzly rain: snow and 

 frost nearly gone. 8. Fine: stormy rain at night. 9. Rainy morning: fine. 

 10. Clear and fine. 11. Slight fog in the morning: fine. 12, 13. Fine. 

 14 — 16, Foggy and cold. 17. Strong hoar-frost in the morning: foggy. 

 18. Clear anil cold. 19. Slight fall cf snow, which soon vanished : clear. 

 20. Fine. 21. Very fine morning: cloudy and wet. 22. Overcast, with rain 

 at night. 23. Drizzly rain. 24, 25. Very fine. 26. Cloudy: rain at night. 

 27, 28. Very fine. 



Penzance. — February 1. Snow. 2. Snow : clear. 3, 4. Clear. 5. Snow. 



6. Heavy fall of snow: rain. 7. Rain: fair. 8. Clear. 9. Rain: fair. 

 10. Clear. 1 1. Clear: rain. 12. Fair: rain. 1 3. Clear : fair. 14. Clear. 

 IS, 16. Fair. 17. Clear. 18. Showers: clear. 19. Clear. 20. Fair : 

 showers. 21. Fair: rain. 22, 23. Rain : fair. 24. Misty: rain. 25. Clear: 

 misty : rain. 26. Rain. 27. Misty. 28. Clear: fair. 



lioslon. — February 1, Fine. 2. Snow. 3, 4. Cloudy. 5. Snow. 6. Cloudy. 



7. Cloudy : rain P.M. 8. Fine. 9. Rain. 10. Fine. 1 1. Fine: liail-storm 

 early A.M. 12, 13. Cloudy. 14. Misty. 15.Cloudy. IG. Misty. 17. Fine. 

 18. Cloudy. 19, 20. Fine. 21. Snow. 22. l<"ine : rain early a. ai. 23. 

 Cloudy. 24. Cloudy: rain early A.M. 25. Clouily. 26, 27. Fine. 28. Fine : 

 rain i'..m. 



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