Meteorological Journal. 133 
For the winter months, . . . . 32.80° 
o«® spring months,a% ) 1. fs 49:60 
“© summer months,.9. . .. 69.25 
“© autumnal month: . «68.22 
The winter has been three degrees warmer than that of 1836; 
and the autumn five degrees; while the summer has been two 
degrees cooler, and the spring one degree warmer: thus equal- 
izing the heat, and favoring the growth of the vegetable world. 
From the cool and wet state of the summer, the wheat crops 
were ten days later than usual in ripening, and the harvest con- 
tinued until the fore part of August, while in usual seasons it is 
completed by the middle of July. The crops of all kinds were 
uncommonly fine. Indian corn suffered somewhat from the ex- 
cessive rains in June, thereby preventing its receiving the 
dressings from the plow and hoe 
The blossoming of fruit and other trees was retarded beyond 
the average period in the spring, but was in the following order: 
Peach in bloom the 28th of April; pear and cherry, the Ist of 
May; apple, 5th of May; papaw, black walnut and butternut, 
the 16th of May; Ribes villosa and Prunus virginianus, the 16th 
of June. 
June and July of this year were remarkable for excessive rains 
and tornadoes. The bottom lands on all the small streams which 
rise in the broken country near the Ohio, were overflowed from 
two to three times, and the crops of grass and grain along their 
borders either entirely destroyed, or greatly damaged. 'The loss 
to the agricultural community was very great. 
The amount of rain for the year has been 43,5,9, inches, which 
is over the mean for this region. The aurora borealis has been 
seen a number of times during the year, especially on the 25th 
of January, when it was most grand and splendid; also on the 2d 
and 3d of June, and Ist of July. We have been visited by no 
destructive storms of wind or hail, and the year, on the whole, 
has been a very propitious one to man and the vegetable and ani- 
mal kingdoms. 
~ Marietta, February 2d, 1838. 
