140 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Clearness, from 0 to 10, {Winps.—No. of times the wind was observed to be in the 
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January, ... pa B41 61/54) 14/ 8) 2/ 8) 19] 23 | 98) Sf 
February, ....43| 47/44/47114/ 6| 8] 6| 29] 10] 17] 27 
March, . 5.54. 47 | 58} 41| 44) 13 | i4|°3| 4} 26] 17 | 12 
April, ss...) 55 | 63) 46/48)91 | 27) 6) TI! 18 5 | 11} 25 
AT acca wale (63) 47) 431461151101 6| 8| 34| 17] 18) 2 
ale scat sc. (591 70/65/64) 14) 7] 4] 6| 29| 15| 25] 2 
3 pe 157 | 55) 43) 50713 | 121 8) 2] 31} 30] 17) 16 
august; .. .2u) 60 | 64/ 58 /55)138; 6) BS) 8} °36 | 24) 18) 87 
September 57 | 61} 57/61], 32) 10); 7] 6} 29 9| 15} 12 
Octobe 477 | 55) 48) 541.13). 7 |.6123) 28] 14] 14] 29 
November, ..| 51] 46) 43/40]21/ 5) 1) 5 71.17 118.) = 
December, ...! 58 | 62| 53/58} 9/| 3/ 1) 8] 12] 17| 12) 62 
| 58 | 56 | 40) 524192 [110 | 45 | 76 [207 | 198 | 192 | 360 _ 
As a Meteorological Register has never before been kept in this 
town, | am unable to compare these results with those for any previous 
ears. The location where the above observations were made, is at 
North Attieboro’, on the Boston and Providence turnpike, twelve miles 
north of the latter place. - 
The robin, (‘Turdus migratorius,) blackbird, (Quiscalus ferruginevs), 
and bluebird, (Sialia Wilsonii,) appeared Feb. 24th; wild goose, (Anser 
season,” March 25th 
The elm, (Ulmus americanus,) in blossom, April Ist; cowslip, (Cal- 
tha palustris,) 6th; anemone, (Anemone nemorosa,) 10th; skunk cab- 
bage, (Symplocarpus foetidus,) 20th; wild columbine, (Aquilegia cana 
creeper, (Bignonia radicans,) June 3d; spider-wort, (Tradescantia vil 
ginica,) 5th ; common locust, (Robinia pseud-acacia,) 10th. ‘ 
There was a display of the aurora on the evenings of the followi#g 
days, viz., Jan, 19,21, 23; Feb. 18; March 23, 29; May 1; Sept. 6, 
8, 16; Dec. 19, 23, 29. ee 
6. Nees von Esenbeck, (from the Phytologist, a London botanical 
Journal, No. exxx, March, 1852, pp. 465-467.)—-_W find 
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