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 



