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tliey give the patient may greatly impede recovery, and I have heard 

 of instances where soldiers in barracks finding sleep impossible in 

 bed have gone out of doors, and sleeping there have been seized 

 with inflammation of the lungs or other diseases, dangerous and 

 sometimes fatal. Yours, &.c., 



Thomas Stratton, R.N. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR NOV. 1848. 



Chiswick. — November \. Rain, with fog. 2. Fine : cloudy. 3. Overcast : 

 cloudy and fine. 4. Overcast. 5. Clear and frosty : overcast. 6. Overcast. 

 7. Clear and cold : bharp frost at night. 8. Frosty : bright sun : clear and frosty. 

 9, 10. Clear:slight frost at nights. II. Overcast. 12. Slight rain. 13, 14. Very 

 fine. 15. Clear : severe frost at night. 16. Frosty : clear and fine. 17. Densely 

 clouded: rain: peculiar luminosity in ihe evening: overcast. 18. Densely 

 clouded. 19. Veiy fine. 20. Densely c'ouded : rain : boisterous. 21. Clear 

 and fine: peculiar aurora borcalis half past seven p.m. in N.W. 22. Overcast. 

 23. Rain. 24. Cloudy: clear and frosty. 2.5. Frosty: overcast: slight rain. 

 26. Cloudy. 27. Very fine 28. Cloudy. 29. Densely overcast : boisterous. 

 30. Clear : cloudy : partially overcast. 



Mean temperature of the month 4I°'01 



IVlean temperature of Nov. 1847 44 -61 



Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty years 43 '00 



Average amount of rain in Nov 2'56 inches, 



Boston. — Nov. 1. F'pggy. 2. Fine. 3. Rain : rain a.m. and p.m. 4. Fine: 

 rain early a.m. and snow p.m. 5. Fine: rain p.m. 6. Cloudy. 7, 8. Fine. 



9. Cloudy : snow A.M. 10 — 14. Fine. 15. Cloudy. 16. Fine. 17. Cloudy: 

 rain A.M. 18. Cloudy. 19. Fine. 20 Cloudy : rain in evening. 21. Fine. 

 22. Cloudy: rain A.^;. 23. Cloudy. 24. Fine. 25. Fine: rain p.m. 26 — 



28. Fine. 29. Fine : rain p.m. 30. Fine. 



Apjilegarlh Manse, Dumfries-shire. — Nov. 1. Dull a.m. : soft rain p.m. 2. Fine 

 generally: flying shoivers. 3. Rain am. : cleared: looking frosty. 4. Frost 

 hard : hills covered with snow. 5. Frost hard : sprinkling of snow. 6. Thaw: 

 showers : stormy. 7. Frost : fine clear day. 8. Frost : clear : snow p.m. 9. Fine 

 winter d.ay : frost : snow inch deep. 10. Frost : clear: snow melting. 1 1. Frost : 

 dull and cloudy : snow gone. 12. Fine; no frost a.m. : gentle frost p.m. 13. 

 Frost a.m. : a change of weather. 14. Frost a.m.: thaw: frost again. 15. Frost a.m.: 

 thaw P.M. 16. Drops of rain occasionally. 17. Rain during night : aurora very 

 splendid. 18. Heavy rain during night : ditto day. 19. Frost a.m. : thaw p.m. 

 20. Storm of rain and wind : flood. 21. Bleak and dull all day. 22. Rain 

 greater part of day. 23. Fair A.sr. : rain p.m. 24. Frost again. 25,26. Thaw: 

 rain and high wind. 27. Fair and fine. 28. Wet nearly all day : high wind. 



29. Frequent showers. 30. Fair, but cloudy. 



Mean temperature of the month 39°*8 



Mean temperature of Nov. 1 847 47 "7 



Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty- five years . 40 '4 



Rain in Nov. 1847 3-79inches. 



Average amount of rain in Nov. for twenty years 3*60 „ 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — Nov. 1. Drops: rain : aurora. 2. Showers: hail- 

 showers. 3. Snow: hail-showers. 4. Snow; clear. 5. Showers. 6. Cloudy: 

 showers. 7. Showers : sleet. 8. Snow-showers : clear : frost. 9. Cloudy : rain. 



10. Cloudy: clear: aurora. 11. Bright: drizzle: showers. 12. Fine: clear. 

 13. Cloudy : showers. 14. Cloudy : hail-showers. 15. Cloudy: showers. 16. 

 Bright : cloudy. 1 7. Showers : aurora. 18. Damp : showers : aurora. 19. Hoar- 

 frost : showers. 20. Rain, 21. Rain : cloudy: aurora. 22. Rain. 23. Showers: 

 aurora. 24. Cloudy : clear. 25, 26. Cloudy : rain. 27, 28. Showers. 29. 

 Cloudy : showers. 30. Showers. 



