6 Mr. Winch’s Account of the Weather, &c. [Juny, 
city whose tension is so considerable, that to it all non-con- 
ductors become conductors, and some bodies only which were 
before conductors, become on account of the state of their m- 
ternal cohesion non-conductors, can only be magnetism. This 
I have shown in a memoir in the first number of Gilbert’s An- 
nales for 1821. If the air were not a non-conductor of electri- 
city, we should not be acquainted with common electricity, 
but only with magnetism. 
Articre II. 
Meteorological Account of the Weather during the Three Winter 
Months of the Years 1821 and 1822, kept at Jasmond, New- 
castle-upon-Lyne. With Observations on the Time of the 
Flowering of various Plants. By N.J. Winch, Esq. 
(To the Editor of the Annals of Philosophy.) . 
SIR, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 8, 1822. 
ConcEIVING a meteorological account of the weather during 
the three winter months of the years 1821 and 1822 as it 
occurred in the north-east of England, may afford amusement to 
some of your numerous readers, 1 take the liberty of transmitting 
an abstract of a journal kept at Jasmond in the vicinity of this 
town, by Mr. Losh, and kindly communicated by him for that 
purpose. Together with observations on the state of the wea- 
ther, notes on the time of the flowering of various plants are 
interspersed, which, with some general remarks, will serve to 
convey a correct idea of the mildest winter experienced in this 
part of the island within the memory of man. 
i remain, Sir, your obedient servant, 
N. J. Wincu. 
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Jasmond, one mile north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, about 200 
feet above the level of the river Tyne. Lat. 55° N, 
1821.—Nov. 50. This has in general beena mild and pleasant 
month, favourable to vegetation, and to all kind of farming ope- 
rations. ‘There were, however, during it, two or tliree very 
heavy storms of wind, one in particularin the night of the 30th,. 
perhaps as violent for two or three hours as any within the 
memory of man, As, however, the wind blew from the W, no 
great injury has been done by it to the shipping on the coast. 
Planis in Flower.—China rose, Portland thorn heath (rica 
carnca), jasmine mignonette, purple groundsel, stocks, pansey 
hollyhocks, wall- flowers, carnation, colchicum, gentianella, 
viola, auricula, primula, Canterbury bell. 
