250 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio, for 1847. 
tion, is the most recent of the tertiary beds found in this section 
of the country: that its fossils are of land or freshwater origin: 
that the facts developed admit of the possibility that the human 
bone as well as those of the Megalonyx, may have found their 
way to their recent resting place within the historic era; but as 
the former is known to be extinct, genus and species, and the lat- 
ter hitherto confined to the existing race, we have no occasion 
from the facts here investigated, to modify the views hitherto en- 
tertained as to the history of our species. 
Arr. XX X.— Abstract of a eg eal os: Ko oe the year 
1847, kept at Marietta, Ohio, Lat d Long. 
4° ° 28" W. of Washington City ; by 8. D f apaing M.D. 
THERMOMETER. 2 __ BAROMETER. | 
é Bg 
z 38 
E ;| 82 | 
MONTHS. S rel ES £2) Prevailing winds. j eid 
Gieisie E 
= Ss S bd = 3 
e |2/ 8/2 | 2) #8 f)als 
B lalgle|é iz Z| 23 
January, - - (31-70) 69 —2 17) 14 366 n. & 8. Ww. 8823-95 0" 
February, - [35°60 20 n. & N. Ww. )-633} 28-95) 0-% 
March, '- - _[39-70| 73) 1 16, 4/30, ss. & 8. w. )-35) 29-05 0" 
April, - ~- |53°B3) 52 & 6 254, s.w.& 8, 7029-25 0-4 
ay, “= + J6b90/84) 3 13° 1175) s. w.& 8. 1-71) 20-20) 0-5 
June, + = (68-63) 46| 22; 8 2177) s. & s. E. 55/29 
July, = = {71-83; 90) 48) 20) 12) 6 0 E.S.E. & 8. }-60) 29:28 Os 
August, - - (67-80) 5 14 Qe s.E. & 8. “6 29-25 2 
Septembe - (6213 86 4 12 434 8. s. E. &N. 9-65 29-20) (4 
October, -  - (50°80, 74 8 12 6/42 w. & N. 9-95, 29-05 -E 
November, - (44:83 76 14 20 2170 = s.,.n. & Ww 9-85 29-15)0.7 
December, - [35-33 69 9! 10, 2110/34 s..'5.x. & x. _29°70.20- 
Mean for year, ‘52-00 52/30) 
Remarks on the year 1847.—The mean temperature for the 
year is 52°; which is lower by a degree and a half than in _ 
that is, about the average mean for this locality. ‘The mean for 
the winter months is 35° ; for the spring, 519-81; summer, 699-42 ; 
and autumn, 52°25, 
The year which has just closed, has not been remarkable for 
any great deviations from the usual course, except the excessive 
rains in December, causing floods in all the western rivers, 
which will be more especially noticed when speaking of the aul- 
was unusually wet, at a time of excessive heat i in June and July, 
with a scalding sunshine. sui 
