88 Meteorological Journal.  [Jan. 1816. 
REMARKS. 
Eleventh Month.—23. Serene, with hoar frost. 24, Hoar frost: light rain for 
a few minutes, p.m. 25. Hoar frost, with Cirrostraius in the horizon: steady 
breeze. 26. Hoar frost: the clouds coloured at sun-rise: clear, p. m. 
27. a.m. Overcast: some light rain, a, m.: Cumulus capped, and inosculating 
with Cirrostratus, p. m, — 28. Fine: the ground lightly covered with granular 
snow. 29. Hoar frost: about one, p. m. a slight snow, granular, and in stars: 
in the evening a mist over the marshes; and at about 84 30’ p. m. a brilliant 
meteor, It resembled asky-rocket, and fell almost directly down with an uniform 
motion, blazing out larger before it became extinct. This meteor, with two 
others which I lately saw in the same quarter (S.W.) passing in the same track at 
about a minute’s interval, had very much the appearance of a simple electrical 
discharge between two horizontal beds of cloud at different elevations. 
30, a.m. Wet: p. m. cloudy, the wind rising at S. and 8. E. 
T'welfih Monih.—\1. Much wind and early, with rain, 2, Fine, a.m. with 
Cirrostratus: then Cumulus, with Cirrus. 3. a.m. Very dark, with clouds: wind 
S.E.: p.m. Cumulosivatus, after which Nimbus in the horizon: the new moon 
conspicuous in an opaque twilight, 4. A wet morning: windy at S.W,: in the 
fore part of the night much wind. 5. Notwithstanding the dryness of the air, 
which was also clear below, there was this forenoon a continuous cloud above at 
a great height, witha hollow sound in the wind, We had a steady rain after this, 
anda. gale of wind in the night. 6, Much wind: Cumulus, with Cirrostratus: 
wet, p.m: a gale through tre night, shifting to N.and N.E, 7. a.m. Cloudy: 
the barometer, which the N, W. wind failed to bring up, now rises, with a con- 
tinued Hard gale from N. E.: the hygrometer receded to 51°; in the evening the 
amoon’s disk appeared small, and its light scanty, though no visible cloud inter- 
vened, §, Clear, dry, windy morning, 9. Steady breeze, clear: hygr. receded 
to 48°, 10.°a.m. Sleet: lunar halo, evening. 12. For these three days past we 
have had a pleasant clear air, with a fragrant smell, like that which exhales from 
the dry turf after showers. 13, a.m. Cloudy: drizzling: the windows of a 
room without a fire, for the first time this season, collect moisture on the outside, 
remaining dry within: sounds come louder than usual from the N. B. 14, Hoar 
frost: a fine day: after dark, alunar corona, occasioned by bars of Cirrug point- 
ing N. and S,, and appearing to converge in the horizon. These soon passed to 
Cirrostratus, and were followed by wind and rain from the southward. 15. Much 
wiud: cloudy: some rain. A very stormy night, with showers. 16. Cumulus, 
mixed with Cirrostratus: early in the afternoon the lofty summits of the former, 
rising from a fore ground of the latter on the E. horizon, presented the resemblance 
of an Alpinelandscape. In the evening, and.on 17,,a. m. the wind N. W., with 
Nimbi, bringing some snow, followed by much cloud, and a gale at evening. 
18. Fine day. 19. Hoar frost, clear: then overcast from the south, and some 
snow in Jarge louse grains, In the evening more snow, followed by rain from S. 
20. a.m. Cloudy: much wind at S., with a hollow sound: rain p.m. anda gale 
through the night. 21. Fine morning: the ground slightly frozen. 22, Very 
white frost: Cirrus above, and Cirrostratus to the S. E.: a little granular snow on 
theice, Snow in the night, 
RESULTS. 
Winds variable, but with a larger proportion of Northerly than usual at this 
season. 
Barometer: Greatest height...... cet tapes ts tea oe aU dS EnERS 
PRCA S Oa siete ha cinieioh/acnias see one ae «.. 28°85 inches ; 
Mean of the period ............. .. -29°S39 inches, 
Thermometer: Greatest height ....... ERG! Be Ma = sone ae” 
Mean of the period .......6-+--+teeveeeeee 230 90° 
Mean of the hygrometer, 0°, Rain, 2°12 inches. 
Totraenain, Twelfth Month, 23, 1815, L. HOWARD, 
