1814.] Meteorological Talte at Plymouth. 275 



For the barometer and thermometer see Plate XIX.* The 

 Editor has added the line of the maximum and minimum height of 

 the thermometer at Chelsea, by way of comparison. The greater 

 height at Plymouth is no doubt owing to the vicinity of the sea. 



JVinds, state of the Jfeather, and quantity of Rain. 



Dale. fVind. Main. Observations. 



1 E .... — .... Hazy morning ; bright day. 



2 Var — Fog, and hoar frost. 



3 E .... 0-6 .... RaiiiO-6. 



4 ENE . — .... Snow showers. 



5 N .... — ...Ditto. 



6 NE .... — 



7 — — Cloudy. 



8 — .... — .... Snow showers. 



9 — — Bright day. 



iO N E to S E > ( IJitto morniog ; snow eve. 



11 S E ....$ 32 ^....sn„„.. 



12 N .... — ....Bright. 



13 NE .... — Ditto morning; cloudy eve. 



14 E ....^ r.... Sleet. 



15 E C n.9 J Cloudy, and showers. 



16 N E ....r "■* y ... 



17 E ....) (.... 



18 — I 3-5 5 Fog, morn ; eve, rain. 



19 NE ....J <.... Morning, rain; hail and snow eve. 



20 N 1 (.... Snow showers. 



21 WNW ....C 0-5 y... 



22 N ....) ?.... 



23 NNW .... _ ....Bright day. 



24 N .... _ .... ^ ' 



25 Var — ....Cloudy. 



26 StoNW ,...) 5... Showers. 



27 Var \ ' •* J.... Rain. 



28 W ) i Fog, Heavy showers. 



29 W to NW....5 '** ^... Ditto, and hail. 



30 NW .... 0-1 ....Showers. 



31 N \V .... 0-1 Snow showers, hail, and sleet. 



11-4 + 



On the night of the 10th there was a great fall of snow : average 

 depth, two feet. A column of it, corresponding to the area of the 

 funnel of the rain-gage, being carefully separated, by removing 

 the surrounding snow yielded when melted 3-2 inches rain. 



There fell between the hours of one of the afternoon of the 

 18th, and nine of the morning of the Ifhh, 2*8 inches rain: on 

 the afternoon of the same day, 07 incbes rain, with hail and snowj 

 on the night of the lyth, 4 inches of snow. 



N. B. The rain of the 18th and 19th was deep snow at Exeter, 



• The upper line in the srale of the thermometer shows (h« grealoit degree of 

 heat indicated by Six's thermometer in each particular day : tlie lower line, the 

 Ifreatttt degree of old. The obscrvatiouh of th<« barometer arc made twice in 

 each day, iit ten A..\I. and at four P..M. 



+ May not Ihil eiiormoH» quantity be partly owing to drifted sliow. — T, 



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