302 Excessive Heat of the Summer of 1825. 
hand. There had not been for seven weeks the least moist- 
ure in the air, or the least dew on the leaves, and there had 
been a constantly burning sun, without clouds, and a parching 
wind from the north-east during the whole time, 
4. Extract of a Letter to the Editor, dated 
: ‘ New Yong, July 22, 1825. 
“We are sufferin an sitesi and continuance of heat, al- 
; together See ed; to-morrow will be the fourteenth day, 
which the thermometer has ranged from 88 to 92 and 
95.— -frequently 87, at 7 0’clock in the morning, and hee a 
pression durin ng the ‘nights, which are suffocating. 
of rain has fallen during this time; and except a little. lighh 
ning last evening no symptom of change. 
