A90 Meteorological Journal. [June, 1817. 
REMARKS. 
Fourth Month.—8. The wind was for some time at SW: rain 
in the night. 9. Cloudy, a.m.: a shower of driven granular snow 
in the night. 10. Cumulostrati and Nimbli, giving small quantities 
of snow. 11. Cumulostratus: windy. 12. Mostly overcast: very 
light rain at intervals. 13. Small rain, a.m.: fair, ppm, 14. A 
little light rain. 15. Fair: large plumose Cirri above Cumulz. 
16. a.m. A strong gale from NW and N, with a shower and hail : 
rainbow: fair day after. 17. Cumulostratus: dark sky: windy. 
18. Cumulostratus: the wind veers to NE and NW: calmer day. 
19. The hygrometer noted at 10: Cumulostrati prevailed, sur- 
mounted by the lighter modifications: windy: the part of the 
moon’s disc in shade distinctly visible, and the light crescent very 
conspicuous in the evening: a small meteor passed to the N E. 
20, a.m. Windy, not steady to NE: Cumulostrati. 21.a.m. Cirri, 
pointing westward, with Cumudi beneath: afterwards an arrange- 
ment of this cloud in regular parallel streamers from NW to SE, 
which became red at sun-set. 22. With the SE wind this morning 
the swallows appeared, but few in number, and flying feebly: a 
serene evening, after Cumulus and Cumulostratus. 23. Hoar frost 
early: cloudy: windy: a shower from N E, p.m.: clear evening: 
the hygrometer to-day receded to 32°, and the superior part of the 
clouds, after the rain, presented a configuration like the pores of 
sponge, which I have not observed before for some years. 24. Cu- 
mulosiratus: windy: a shower at night. 25. a.m. Overcast : 
windy: Cumulostratus. 26. The same, the breeze growing 
stronger. 27, 28. Chiefly overcast with Cumulostratus and large 
Cirrocumulus. 29. The same, with Crrrostratus: a slight shower 
by night. 30. A moderate gale at NE, with showers and much 
cloud: Nimli: a little hail. 
Fifth Month.—1. Cloudy: windy. 3. A slight shower in the 
night. 5. The hygrometer receded to 32°. 6. The wind went 
from Nto E. 7. Wind SE: a breeze: very clear all day, and a - 
full orange twilight: by six, a.m. the Sth, it was however SW, 
with a slight shower. 
RESULTS. 
Winds almost uniformly northerly, and moderate in force. 
Barometer: Greatest height..... ... 30°37 inches 
Beast £1, .,. d2 2 Res supeeae sy. 
Mean of the period .... 30°028 . 
Thermometer: Greatest height...... .. 64° 
Teast 7. taht leans hte y 25 
Mean of the period .... 43°85 
Mean of the hygrometer, 49°. Rain, 0°28 in. 
Vegetation has been peculiarly slow during this period. 
TorrENHAM, L. HOWARD. 
Fifth Month, 10, 1817. 
