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them, was that on coming near the surface, they seemed to have much 
difficulty in remaining below it at all. They then rose completely to 
violent springing and darting in various directions—evidently without 
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then floated above the surface, the body being in a perpendicular posi- 
tion. A few convulsive movements shortly followed, and they were dead. 
I have watched thousands of them so dying; and in every instance 
such was the mode of death. Having taken them at the moment of 
death and immediately afier, a rude examination showed in all the 
same appearance. The intestines and brain were gorged with blood, 
much darker than natural. The gills were almost black, and the air- 
bladder ruptured. 
Remarks on the Climate of San Francisco; by Dr. H. Gissons, 
(from the California Christian Advocate.)—Since ihe first of Decem- 
ber, 1850, I have kept a record of observations on the weather in this 
city, of which | propose to give a summary, for the especial benefit of 
distant enquirers. © It may be well to observe, that while the climate of 
the western coast of North America possesses some peculiar features, 
that of San Francisco and the immediate vicinity, differs from every 
other place on the coast, and is, in somé respects, the most extraordi- 
nary climate in the world. This is owing to the peculiar position of 
the city, having the ocean on one side, and on the other a vast bay ex- 
tended north and south near a hundred miles, and separated from the 
ocean by a mountain wall, except at the break where the city is loca- 
ted, and where the bay communicates with the sea by a narrow strait. 
at eleven in the evening. In computing the temperature for the 
oye © used two observations only, the extremes at sunrise and 
temic nmence having shown that the mean thus calculated 1s 
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. very nearly the true temperature for the twenty-four hours. ; 
In the Atlantic States, the warmest period of the day in winter Is 
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to ee 1s an hour or two earlier than in winter. 
which the sun is shining. Every such object acts as a mirror, a 
tends to elevate the column of mereury above the proper mark for the 
