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winds, up to the 21st. The rest of the month was fine and 

 warm, with high, drying winds. 



June continued warm and genial, but dry : the 3d and Sth 

 were accompanied with very slight showers, not sufficient to 

 wet the ground, and the intervening days were warm, with 

 very drying winds. The 12th was very cool, with frost in 

 some places. Up to the 16th it continued warm and dry, 

 the temperature being 90° on the 15th and 98° on the 16th, 

 the highest point the mercury reached but once during the 

 year. A fine shower fell on the 17th, and another on the 

 22d, accompanied with thunder. The remainder of the 

 month was dry and warm. 



July was mostly warm and dry throughout. On the Sth 

 the temperature was 89° ; the 9th, 99°, the hottest day of the 

 summer; 10th, 96° ; 11th, 91°; 12th, 94° , and 13th, 90° ; 

 a very hot and trying week in the absence of rain. On the 

 17th a light cool rain fell, but not sufficient to wet the 

 ground. The 21st and 22d were hot days; the remaining 

 week was cooler, with east winds, and a very light shower 

 on the 30th. 



The early part of August was variable, with very light 

 showers, barely sufficient to damp the ground, and alternate 

 cool and warm days. From the 12tli to the 25th it was very 

 dry, warm and sultry. The 26th and 27th were showery, 

 and the 29th and 30th accompanied by severe easterly storms, 

 in which upwards of six inches of rain fell ; the high wind 

 also did much damage to crops, and great quantities of fruit 

 were blown off, 



September was warm and beautiful ; the refreshing rains 

 and the genial weather resuscitating vegetation everywhere. 

 The 12th was the first stormy day ; this was succeeded by a 

 few very cool days, with the temperature as low as 38°, on 

 the 14th and 17th. The weather was fine after this, to the 

 egd of the month, the last day being the coolest, with the 

 thermometer at 30°, and a light white frost. 



The month of October was mostly fine ; the first severe 

 frost was on the 17th, when the dahlias, which were in full 

 bloom the day before, were entirely killed, the temperature 



