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they 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., 
Tuomas Stratton, R.N. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR NOV. 1848. 
Chiswick.—November 1. Rain, with fog. 2 Fine: cloudy. 3, Overcast : 
eloudy and fine. 4. Overcast. 5. Clear and frosty: overcast. 6. Overcast. 
7. Clear and cold: sharp frost at night. 8. Frosty : bright sun: clear and frosty. 
9, 10. Clear: slight frost at nights. 11. Overcast. 12. Slightrain. 13,14. Very 
fine. 15. Clear: severe frost at night. 16. Frosty: clear and fine. 17. Densely 
clouded : rain: peculiar luminosity in the evening: overcast. 18. Densely 
clouded. 19. Very fine. 20. Densely clouded: rain: boisterous, 21. Clear 
and fine; peculiar aurora borealis half-past seven p.m. in N.W. 22. Overcast. 
23. Rain. 24. Cloudy: clear and frosty. 25. 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  ....0+..sseeseseeessseeeeeeees 41°-0] 
Mean temperature Of Nov. 1847  .ccceeeseeecceseeeeees syovases 44 ‘61 
Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty years ....., 43 +00 
Average amount of rain in NOV. ...sc.secsesesseceeecerseesees 2°56 inches, 
Boston.—Nov. 1. Foggy. 2. Fine. 3. Rain: rain a.m.and p.m. 4. Fine: 
rain early A.M. and snow p.m, 5. Fine: raine.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 inevening. 21. Fine. 
22. Cloudy: raina.m. 23. Cloudy. 24. Fine. 25, Fine: rain r.m, 26— 
28. Fine. 29, Fine: rain p.m, 30, Fine. 
Applegarth Manse, Some frit Bir GrrNON: 1. Dull a.m. : soft rain p.m. 2, Fine 
generally: flying showers. 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: fineclearday. 8. Frost: clear: snowr.m. 9. Fine 
winter day : frost: snowinch deep. 10. Frost: clear: snow melting. 11. Frost: 
dull and cloudy: snow gone. 12. Fine: no frost a.m.: gentle frost p.m. vik 
Frost a.m.: a change of weather. 14. Frost a.m.: thaw: frost again. 15. Frosta.m. 
thaw p.m. 16. Drops of rain occasionally. 17. Rain during night: aurora very 
splendid. 18. Heavy rain during pights ditto day. 19. Frost a.m.: thaw p.m. 
20. Storm of rain and wind: flood. . Bleak and dull all day. 22. Rain 
greater part of day. 23, Fair a.m.:raine.m. 24. Frostagain. 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 ......... witha cbeddssades Dds SHE'S 
Mean temperature of Nov, 1847 .........sescesseees esaci edoes 47 “7 
Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty-five years . 40 °*4 
Ramp tar Noe 1 947-3 ease. isd -c ish cecacvancnas $0: Spake eadnes .- . 8°79 inches. 
Average amount of rain in Nov. for twenty years. ..... pnd en OS ae 
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. fs Snow-showers: clear: frost. 9. Cloudy : rain.. 
10, Cloudy: clear ;. aurora. . Bright: drizzle: showers. 12. Fine: clear. 
13. Cloudy: showers, 14. Cloudy: hail-showers. 15. Cloudy: showers. 16. 
Bright: cloudy. 17. 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. 
