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264 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio. 
Art. XXIX.—Abstract of a Meteorological Jougpal, kept at Ma- 
rietta, Ohio, for the year 1849, Lat. 39° 25’, Long. 4° 28’ west 
of Washington city; by S. P. Hitprera, M.D. 
THERMOMETER. t's BAROMETER. 
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MONTHS. wee a 3 | Prevailing winds. : 
Sie¢isigs § | 
5 m |S |_ 
B\ 83/3/32 E : Z 
di Slaishss S18 ho 
2 |) F (ZF ROSES = | = | & 
January, = = - (30-46) 5 9224-09 ow. & ww. 30-1012 
February, - 21) 63) 2 16) 2-58 w.s. w. &S.E )-B5)| 29-5 
March, i - (4) 72: 21) 14) 17) 4-37) s.s.w. &s. 5 1.60/28: 
April, -  - |50-57) #4) 21) 20/10, 2:50) s.w. & s. E. -60 28 
ay, «+ (61-40) 86 38) 201 11/ 5-92; ss. & 8. we. 70) 29 
June, - c : 50} 4 4-42 s.& s. w. 65,29 4 
July, - - |72: 48) $ 21 s. & 8. E. 7029-30) 4 
August, - - |69¢ 5Q| 3:50) os. n. QE. 1-50/29-15) * 
September, - (62% 40) § 2-63 s.,N.&s. 8. [29-75 28-90) 
October, - ~ 3 30 12} 3-92 s.w. & w. 29-70) 28:88) °€ 
November, - |47°5 20) § 58, os. s. E. & w. (29:58)29-10) 4 
December - 9 19} 5-17) w.,n. &s.B. 14410.28% 1-05 
Mean for year, |52:09, 43:18 | 
Tue mean temperature for the year 1849, is fifty-two degrees 
of the summer months. It goes, however, to prove that the mean 
heat for this locality lies between fifty-two and fifty-three degrees 
of Fahrenheit. 
' The amount of rain and melted snow for the year is forty-two 
inches and eighty-nine hundredths, being over an inch less than 
in 1848, and ten inches less than in 1847. The rain has been 
about two degrees less than that of 1848. Of snow, there fe 
about fourteen inches on six different periods; the largest amoun 
at one time being six inches. é. 
