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Excessive Heat of the Summer of 1825, 299 
Montreal, Lower Canada.—Thermometer at 7 A. M. and 3 
. July 9th, 76,85. 10th,75,91. 11th, 77,93. 12th, 
81,90. 13th, 69,91. 14th, 70, 89. 15th, 73, 89. 
Wiscasset, Maine, July 15.—During the present week we 
have had uncommonly warm weather. By a thermometer * 
kept in Edgecomb, it is stated that the mercury stood on 
Monday, 9 0’clock, A. M. at 103. Tuesday morning, 107— — 
104 in the shade. fed : 
It has been much warmer however in the interior—at Gard- 
_her, on Sunday, the mercury stood at 130 degrees in the sun. 
Baltimore, Maryland, July 19.—The heat in this city on 
Sunday and yesterday was again very oppressive. The _ 
, * : 
Windsor, Vermont, July 1 8.—The tem perature of the air by 
a well situated thermometer, on Monday last, was 96 degrees 
F. and continued near that temperature for several hours. 
on the latter day it was 95 F. ; quantit of water in the at- 
mosphere sueh, that if wholly condensed would be nearly nine 
storm of thunder and lightning. 
Itis believed that the present is the warmest summer we 
have had for the last fourteen years. The summer is but lit- 
tle more than half spent, and yet we have had more extreme- 
ly hot days than we frequently have in the whole season. 
