﻿Y. 
  METEOROLOGY. 
  

  

  As 
  introductory 
  to 
  the 
  subjoined 
  meteorological 
  tables, 
  

   it 
  may 
  be 
  remarked 
  that 
  here, 
  as 
  in 
  other 
  and 
  older 
  

   States, 
  few 
  are 
  found 
  who 
  have 
  made 
  such 
  observations, 
  

   or 
  have 
  persevered 
  in 
  them 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  period. 
  

  

  The 
  tables 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Henry 
  Tooley, 
  of 
  Natchez, 
  

   are 
  perhaps 
  the 
  fullest, 
  most 
  continuous, 
  and 
  uninter- 
  

   rupted, 
  and 
  extend 
  through 
  a 
  greater 
  period 
  of 
  time, 
  

   than 
  those 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  similar 
  observations 
  known 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  Those 
  given 
  in 
  this 
  report 
  were 
  compiled, 
  chiefly 
  from 
  

   the 
  notes 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Tooley, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  L. 
  C. 
  Davis, 
  for 
  the 
  

   Southern 
  Rural 
  Almanac, 
  published 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Affleck, 
  in 
  

   1852, 
  who 
  is 
  entitled 
  to 
  credit 
  for 
  thus 
  preserving 
  them. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  indebted 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Coleman, 
  of 
  Jefferson 
  County, 
  

   and 
  to 
  Alexander 
  H. 
  Pegues, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Lafayette, 
  for 
  

   their 
  observations 
  made 
  for 
  several 
  years 
  past 
  on 
  the 
  

   fall 
  of 
  rain, 
  and 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Oakley, 
  of 
  Jackson, 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  

   of 
  his 
  Meteorological 
  Register, 
  kept 
  for 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution; 
  all 
  of 
  these 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   pages, 
  and 
  will 
  form 
  interesting 
  matter 
  for 
  reference. 
  

   Other 
  materials 
  have 
  been 
  collected 
  in 
  relation 
  to 
  meteo- 
  

   rology 
  generally; 
  but 
  these, 
  not 
  being 
  as 
  full 
  and 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  as 
  is 
  desired, 
  or 
  as 
  they 
  can 
  hereafter 
  be 
  made, 
  

   will 
  be 
  reserved 
  for 
  a 
  future 
  report. 
  

  

  