Dr. Holmes’ meteorological observations. 109 
h. |. Remarks. | 
1791 Winds generally N. W. Weather tair. ‘he mercury rose 
Jan. 479)57 twice to 79°. It was at and below 32° eleven days in this 
month. On the 31st pease were up in the garden. 
Winds variable ; generally N. W. and S. W. | ‘The mercury 
was at and below 32° three days in this month. On the 9th 
Feb. {31)28) a luminous column in the south, rising from near the horizon 
to an altitude of about 45°, continued 12 minutes, and gradu- 
ally disappeared. 
| |Winds chiefly peas Mercury was at 87” five days in this 
month ; at and above 80°, thirteen days ; and below 32° two 
8 days. On the 21st Steet ee cucumber vines ; mercury 
March |87}31 ° 
at 33°; wind N. W. On the 3d there was an Aurora Bor- 
} ealis, It appeared in the N. £. 15 minutes before 7 in the 
evening, and continued until 10. 
Winds variable ; chicily 5. W. Lhe mercury was at and above 
90° six days in this month ; and from 80° to 90° 7 days. 
{Winds principally N. E. irom the 7th to the 18th, with clouds 
May ol 60 and rain. ‘The rest of the month chiefly S. W. ‘The mercu- 
: ry rose twice to 97°; and was at and above 90° 13 days in 
this month. 
Winds — S.&. and S. On the iich the mercury was 
93° at 1 o’clock Pp. wm ; and at 3fellto 67°. A heavy ciittter 
June {99 87) shower ea ein this great and sudden change in the atmos- 
phere. Observations from the ist to the 2ist, during which 
= | Em the mercury vas at aad abave 90° ten days | 
During seven winters, T never saw the ground Sitditsed with 
snow ; but on the tenth of January, 1800, there fell at Savannah the 
deepest snow, accompanied with the severest cold, ever remembered 
in the lower parts of Georgia. By a letter from an _ intelligent 
friend, dated Midway, 17 February, 1800, I was informed, that the 
snow had been three feet deep in particular places, and from sixteen 
to eighteen inches on a level. A sleet, the same winter, loaded the 
trees with ice from Broad river (South Carolina) toward the Savan- 
nah, a space of ten or fifteen miles, and made erat devastation 4 in the 
forests.. 
