Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio. 215 
nearly obliterated, Lepidostrobi reduced to their woody skeletons, 
his : 
trata of ordinary bituminous coal usually consist of thin 
layers of brilliant bitumen alternating with others of bituminous 
shale or cannel. This arrangement I consider due to the va- 
* 
Art. XX VI.— Abstract of a Meteorological Journal kept at Marietta, 
Ohio, for the year 1856—Lat. 39°25 N., Long. 4°28 W.; by 
S. P. Hinprera. 
THERMOMETER. | pc BAROMETER. 
7 ae 
| RD Bigs at’ 
MONTHs. Hy - : g 5 = sz Winds. 2 : 
pa ax 
s2/eielz lee zie? 
eS isliSlélslé =| 2) 8 
anuary, 17-87} 45-13] 15\ 16| 2°75.w.n. w. ds. w. 29-90/28-90 1° 
February, (25°50) 50-165 14 15) 1:66 w.,n. & s. w. [29 70 28°60 1- 
rey, - |8213) 57-10] 16 15] 1°34 w.w. w.d w. [29°70 2875) 
April, - |54°83| 85, 19] 23 7) 225 w, 8.8. w.dex 29°70 2900 
May, + |61-20) 90) 38] 16 15) £16) ws. &s. w. 6012908) : 
me, 72°44) 95) 46) 29) 25) w.s.z.&s, (29°55 29°20 * 
rock 52] 30) s. w.d&s, (29652912) * 
August, j 2) w.N. Ww. &8.W 55\29 00} +f 
September, 20 s, 8 Ww. & 8. |29°60,2910 % 
senor, 18 . SW, & ESE. 45 dt 
ovember, 17 Ss. W., W., dE. |29°70/28°65 14 
Deseniber, 16 W., N. W, d£8,W. 29°80 28°96) 
Mean, 
ttest portion of the season; the failure of some of the crops, 
an wamenat exemption from disease, in all portions of the valley 
Ot the Ohio, 
ks on the seasons.— Winter—The cold in January was 
i ar, reducing the mean 
degrees 
at and below that oat The extreme of cold was not so great 
“Sin January, 1852, when it was ~28°, on one morning only 
