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PARTIAL RESULTS OF EXPLORATION. 

 Meteorological Observations at stations on the route Continued. 



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III Continued. 



IV. From register kept by Mr. Geo. W. Stevens, at Olympia, Washington Territory; latitude 47 02 50&quot;; approximate 

 longitude 122 53 W. Those results, in this table, which were obtained at Fort Steilacoom, have been copied, by permission, 

 from a register kept by Dr. Geo. Suckley, and Dr. Eichard Potts, U. S. A., for the medical department U. S. A. 



* Registers for Olympia for May and June, 1854, not received. 



EEMARKS. 



Jljnil, 1854. &quot;No rain-gauge. The whole month might be called a continuous rain-storm, though there were three or four pleasant evenings. 

 Fair weather was always of very brief duration.&quot; &quot; There was a pretty heavy frost on the night of the 7th ; rain and hail together for 15 minutes on 

 the llth; ice, -j n ch thick, formed on the night of the 20th; frost on the nights of the 21st and 25th.&quot; At Fort Steilacoom, latitude 47 10 57&quot; N., 

 longitude 12-2 33 W., the quantity of rain (luring the month was 12.5 inches. 



May and June, 1854. Quantity of rain 0. 88-inch. Light &quot; hoar frost&quot; and light frost (luring May. Quantity of rain in June 5.68 inches. 



July, 1854.&quot; Not a drop of rain during the whole month, except a slight sprinkle at 4i p. m. on the 15th. At Fort Steilacoom there was 0.35 inch 

 of rain on the 16th, ;md on the same day there was &quot;hoar frost.&quot; 



August, 1854. At Fort Steilacoom there were 3.93 inches of rain, and there were two heavy and two light frosts, during the month. 



September, 1854. At Fort Steilacoom there were 3.46 inches of rain, and there was frost four times, during the month. 



October, 1854. There were 3.14 inches of rain. Five frosts during the month. 



