452 Meteorological Obfervations for the Year 1782. 
end of the menth, the wind was, for the moft part, northerly, 
very high, and frequent cold ftorms of rain. Twelve days on 
which rain fell. From the 19th to the 25th, wind conftantly 
N. E. and more or lefs rain fell every day. 
- Greateft deg. of heat on the 15th, at 2, P. M.---Barom. at 
29, 84---wind S.---fair. Greateft deg. ef cold on the 11th, 
at-6, A. M.---- barom. 30, 59----wind N. N. E. ----cloudy. 
Barom.: higheft on the 26th; at 6, A. w.----thérm. 43?---- 
wind N. N. W.---cloudy : loweft on the 4th, at 6, A. m.--- 
therm. 51 AA Wind very high at W. N W. “zr clouds and 
funfhine. 
The Aurora Borealis appeared in tlie night of the 2d,---wind 
W.---and of the 4th,---wind W. N. W.---the preceding and 
following days fair.— Wind very high on the 5th and 6th. 
Another Aurora in the night of the 14th,---wind W. $. W.--- 
preceding and following days fair. 
Difeafes in Ipfwich ; putrid and flow fevers, dyfenteries, cho- 
Jics—Sickly : In Salem ; chin coughs, cholics, ophthalmias, 
pleurifies, peripneumonies, rheumatifms, catarrhal. fevers— 
Very fickly : In Beverly ; diforders in the firft paffages, tu- 
manors, 
MAY. 
“Therm. Barom. 
| , AM. Nom. P.M: A.M. ^ Nos. 
Hiigheft, 61 68 631 30, 32 30, 30 iR 28 
. Loweft, 47 47 47|29,28 29,34 29,60 
= "Mean fat. 54 59 56 | 29, 91 29,90 29,95 
~The month very cool and wet---no froit. Prevailing winds 
from. W. to N. and N. E. Vegetation backward. Peach, 
and fome othe fruit-trees, injured by the winter. Fourteen 
Gays on which rain fell. 
Greateft 
