

On the Climate, Productions ; fye. of Singapore. 



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Art, XVI. — Abstract of a Meteorological Register kept at Singa- 

 pore, Lat. 1° 20' North, Long. 103° 52' East, from Nov. I, 

 1839, to Feb. 28, 1841, with Notices of the Productions, fyc. 

 of the Island ; by Joseph S. Travelli. 



TO THE EDITORS 



Gentlemen — Herewith, in accordance with your request, I send 

 an abstract of the meteorological register kept by me during the 

 latter part of my residence in Singapore, together with some de- 

 sultory remarks on the climate and on the state of agriculture on 

 the island. 



THERMOMETER. 



DATE. 



1839, Novem., 

 " Decern., 



1840, January, 



Feb'ary, 

 March, 

 April, 

 May, 

 June, 

 July, 

 August, 



Septem., 

 October, 



RAIN 



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8.72 78.76:11. 17 21 62 



87.5073.40, _ ._„„ 



87.80,71.50:10.7079.1078.56 



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9.87 78.99 78.78 8.50 22 722.10 130 



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87.20,71.50111.59,78.9978.84 

 88.60 73.00 1 10.60 79.84 80.60 



10.66 16 472.20150 

 6.45 23 452.60 178 



67 

 23 

 38 



180 



89.20,73.70 



6.64 15 252.35207103 

 9.8780.3380.31110.37 18 61J2.30 198 171 



9.77 80.7681.01 5.16 14 363.20221 



90.00,73.00 



88.00,72.00 7.9681. 1681.34 7.97 9 43,3.45211 



88.70,72.00 9.79 80.8681.40 5.56 10 204.75228 



88.00,71.80 8.3479.59,80.54 8.66 13 463.85174 

 89.00,72.40 8.6579.8879.60 8.00 12 31J4.00 147 



74 

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88.60,72.00 

 Novem., 86.0073.00 

 Decern., 86.30,71.80 8.6378.55 



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1841, January, 87.80,71.00 9.8577.81 

 " Feb'ary, 88.00,68.70 1 1.30;79.80 



9.44 80.46,80.30 



7.7581.12,78.54 



79.76 



78.04 



80.53 



42, 



72j 

 19 



8.80 15 364.00 162 167 

 7.27 16 473.40 79 3 



7.82 18 57 

 7.29 13 

 2.50 ! 5 6 



2.90 99 



152 



163 



2 



The observations were made at the mission school of the Amer- 

 ican Board of Foreign Missions, at Ryan's Hill, about half a mile 

 from the town. The hill is about one hundred or one hun- 

 dred and twenty feet above the level of the sea. The register 

 from which the abstract is made, includes hourly observations, 

 from half an hour or more before sunrise to ten o'clock, P. M., 

 with occasional observations through the night, for almost every 

 day of the sixteen months mentioned in the abstract. These 



