Miteorologital Obfervations Sid the Year 3782: 357 
conftantly loaded with a {moky vapour.. The- ground, in many 
places, faid to be dried to a mere duft, as low as four or five 
feet from the furface.. The. withered ftate of many large groves 
of trees, exhibit a melancholy evidence of the extreme drynefs 
of the ground. Fields of Indian corn as. white as they ufually 
are.the laft of October, with their ears hanging down, and hufks . 
Separated.: All kinds.of garden efculents. greatly fuffered, and 
many of them perifhed. Horfes and cattle fed at barns before: 
the middle of the month.. 
Greateft deg. of heat on the cth,.at 3, P. w.---barom. Joweft 
—--wind extremely high at S. W. The mercury fell three- 
fourths of an inch from 7 in the morning to 3 in the after- 
‘noon; and, as the wind abated, rofe as much in about fix hours. 
- Greateft deg. of cold on the 27th, at 7, A. M. --2barom. 30, 
10---wind W. N. W.---far. Barom. higheft on the 14th,. 
at 6, A. M. ---therm. 54 °___wind W.---fmoky air: | 
Frequent northern lights, viz. in the evening of the sth,. 
fmall---wind’W.—the 6th ; wind E.---rain the next day :— 
the i2th, very bright ; wind Wisi cool the next day :—the 
13th ; wind N.N.W.—-rain the.next.dày :—the 15th; wind 
N. W.---fair after it :—the 22d ; wind S. W.-~-fair after it =- 
“the 30th ; wind N. W-L—-fpinkling of rain next day: - 
Difeafes in Ipfivich ; "continued fevers, worms : In Salem ; 
cholera morbus, chin coughs, mild dyfenteries, vomiting D 
| purging among children : In: Beverly ; flow fevers, cholera 
~ morbus: 
OCTOBER. TM " 
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A.M. Noon P.M. — A.M. Noon. P. M: T 
Pinen, “59. 64 62] 30, $2 .30,$1, 39; 90 |. Rün 
A o" ^42 45° 44 | 29562: 29559 29,60»i ino 
oftat.49. 543 .51| 30,08 . 29.07 20,95.) daB 
