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weight may be found at any other place by multiplying W by the 
decimal multiplier corresponding to the nearest degree in the table. 
Ex. 1.—If a ship’s cargo be 1000 tons at London, what will it 
weigh at Moscow, lat. 55° 45! ? 
The multiplier corresponding to 56° is 1-000321, which being 
multiplied by 1000, gives 1000°321 tons, or 1000 tons 6 ewt. 1 qr. 
19 lbs., so that the gain or difference in weight is 6 cwt. 1 qr. 19 Ibs., 
which the table indicates. 
Ex. 2.—A ship’s cargo weighs 500 tons at London, what will be 
its weight at Madras, lat. 13° 4'? 
The decimal multiplier in a line with 13° is -99756112, which 
being multiplied by 500, gives 49878056 tons, so that the cargo is 
1 ton 4 ewt. 1 qr. 15,5, lbs. less at Madras than at London. 
The table exhibits the gain or loss in weight of all ships from 
1000 tons to 100 tons; the gain or loss of almost any other ship 
gaay be obtained very easily by the simple rules of arithmetic. 
Thus the gain of a ship of 1500 tons would be the sum of the gains 
of the ships marked 1000 tons and 500 tons. The loss of a ship 
of 50 tous would be half the loss of the ship marked 100 tons, &c. 
J.J. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR FEB. 1843. 
Chiswick.—Feb. 1. Very fine: cloudy. 2. Heavy rain: overcast. §. Stormy 
showers: boisterous. 4. Stormy: very boisterous. 5. Clear and frosty. 6. 
Cloudy. 7. Hazy: sleet. 8. Dense fog: hazy and cold. 9. Cold easterly 
haze. 10, Densely clouded. 11. Uniformly overcast. 12. Slight drizzle. 
13. Frosty: hazy: sharp frost at night. 14. Frosty: cloudy: severe frost. 
15. Sharp frost: snow flakes: frosty. 16. Dry air and frosty: overcast. 17. 
Clear and frosty: very fine: stormy at night. 18. Stormy, with drifting snow. 
19. Overcast: heavy rain. 20. Rain: foggy. 21. Foggy: fine: foggy. 29. 
Slight rain: cloudy. 23. Very fine. 94. Foggy: cold easterly haze, @5. Slight 
drizzle: stormy. 26. Sleet: drizzly. 27. Stormy and wet: barometer very low. 
28. Cloudy.—Mean temperature of the month 3°-8 below the average. 
Boston.—Feb. 1. Fine. 2. Rain: stormy, withrainr.m. 3. Fine: stormy, 
with snow p.m.: stormy night. 4. Stormy: hailandsnowr.m. 5. Fine. 6. 
Fine : rain and snow v.m. 7. Cloudy: rainr.m. 8. Cloudy. 9. Fine. 10. Fine: 
rain p.m. 11. Rain: rainearly a.m.:rain p.m. 12. Cloudy. 13. Finer 14— 
16. Cloudy. 17. Fine. 18, Cloudy: snow a.m. 19. Cloudy: rainr.m. 0, 
Cloudy: rain early a.m.: rain pm. 21. Cloudy. 22. Rain: rain early a.m.: 
rain a.m. 23. Fine. 24. Cloudy. 25. Cloudy: rain and snow p.m. 26—98. 
Cloudy. 
Sandwick Manse, Orkney.—Feb. 1. Showers. 2. At 14 p.m. wind N.W.: 
stormy, with drift, 3. Snow-drift: at 12 at night a storm began. 4. Cloudy : 
thaw: frost. 5. Cloudy: frost. 6. Bright: frost: thaw: aurora. 7. Clear: 
frost: thaw. 8. Bright: thaw: damp. 9, 10, Cloudy: frost. 11. Drizzly 
showers: clear hoar-frost. 12. Clear frost: clear hoar-frost. 15. Showers: 
snow-showers, 14. Snow-drift. 15. Clear: snowing. 16, 17. Snow-showers : 
clear. 18. Clear: cloudy. 19. Bright: cloudy. 20. Bright: thaw. 21. Cloudy ; 
thaw. 22. Snow-showers: cloudy: frost. 23. Clear and frosty. 24. Bright : 
cloudy: thaw. 25, Cloudy: frost. 26. Cloudy: snow-showers. 27. Snow- 
showers: clear and frosty. 28. Clear and fiosty : snow-showers. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire.— Feb. 1. Heavy showers vm. 2. Snow- 
showers, 3. Snow: frost rm. 4, Frost and snow. 5. Fine, but frosty. 6, 
Frost a.m.: raine.m. 7. Thaw: high wind rm. 8. Mild and fair. 9. Pair, 
but chilly. 10. Sprinkling of snow: frost. 11,12. Fair: no frost. 13. Frost: 
fine. 14, Frost. 15. Frost: shower of snow. 16—18. Frost. 19, Slight 
frost. 20, Snow and sleet. 21. Slight rain. 2%. Fair. 23, 24, Showery, 
25. Vine and fair. 26, Fair, but cloudy, 27. Fair. 28. Frost a.m.: slight 
snow. 
