METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



BAROMETER. 



NOVEMBER 22, 1768. A remarkable fall of the barometer all 

 over the kingdom. At Selborne we had no wind, and not 

 much rain ; only vast, swagging, rock-like clouds appeared at 

 a distance. WHITE. 



PARTIAL FROST. 



THE country people, who are abroad in winter mornings long 

 before sunrise, talk much of hard frost in some spots, and 

 none in others. The reason of these partial frosts is obvious, 

 for there are at such times partial fogs about ; where the fog 

 obtains, little or no frost appears ; but where the air is clear, 

 there it freezes hard. So the frost takes place either on hill 

 or in dale, wherever the air happens to be clearest and freest 

 from vapour. WHITE. 



THAW. 



THAWS are sometimes surprisingly quick, considering the 

 small quantity of rain. Does not the warmth at such times 

 come from below ? The cold in still, severe seasons seems 

 to come down from above ; for the coming over of a cloud in 

 severe nights raises the thermometer abroad at once full ten 



