CXCVIl 



The onlv exception — and a remarkable one it is— was made by the last 

 month of the year. The temperature of December was not only higher 

 than the average of this month, but it was absolutely the highest observed 

 by me in that long series of years. 



The following table will more distinctly exhibit these facts : 



This table shows that the mean temperature of January and February 

 was more than 10 degrees, and of March and April over 5 degrees below 

 the average, of August 4, of September and November over 3, and of the 

 months of Maj-, June, July and October between i and 2 degrees below. 

 Winter was colder by 6h degrees ; spring came next, with 4 degrees, and 

 summer and autumn were not more than 2i degrees below the average. 



The quantity of rain during the past year was about the average of 37 

 years, a little over 41 inches ; but it was even more unequally distributed 

 than usual. In January, in April, and from August to the end of the year, 

 we had much less than the average quantity of rain; in February, March, 

 and May, we got our regular share ; while in June and July the quantity 

 was enormous : in these two months 20 inches, or very nearly one-half the 

 quantity of the whole year, almost as much as in the other ten months of 

 the year together I 



