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mercury was below 50 on pe mornings ; in 52 on three mornings ; 
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in °53 on one morning only ; in 54 on eleven mornings. n un- 
usual tendency to rain existed -ahpugghout the month—not the misting 
or drizzling rain common in the s er; but rain in big drops from 
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the Ist, and on the night of the 11th; and rain fell moderately for sev- 
eral hours on the 17th, ;45ths of an inch collecting in the guage. 
Besides there were threatenings of rain on the 7th and Qist. T oug 
the sea winds were constant and often high, they brought but little mist. 
The weather of the month was pronounced by general consent to be 
colder and more unpleasant than is warranted by the common reputa- 
tion of the summer in this place 
It will be observed that in the four years not a single day rec 
in June when the sky was cloudy from sunrise to sunset. 
character with our summer weather. pas prj are frequently 
for a longer period ; but the clouds Mace ivatiably disappear between 
8 and 10 o’clock, often returning towards sunset or afierwards, in the 
form of driving mist. The tendency to cloud at night and in the morn- 
falsiecaibe » (which would correspond to aii error of 3 or 4mm. if in 
Sprpating the atmospheric pressure the change of the zero- point were 
isre 
(2. :) In very great altitudes also, the local forms of the surface are not 
seldom without influence sufficient to change somewhat the daily range 
of temperature. Bare walls exposed to the sun act by absorption and 
Subsequent radiation: favorably insones? snow surfaces can - 
On so as to increase the maxi The minimum also can, even i 
greater heights, be depressed sonsibiy, if the forms of the peaks Setiih 
descending cold currents of air. he increase of temperature which 
may result even before the a pearence of the sun, and after the effect 
of the descending current has mba te is dependent upon the lateral 
influx of the free, less cooled masses 0 
(3.) The time of the maximum at high places, plies agreeing with 
the culminations of the sun, appears to what independent 
of the maximum in the lower parts of the ‘octane ‘ead in the plains. 
feet before the later hours of afternoo 
(4.) On linloted fair days with strong sunshine, the eenspocature of 
the air near th A ore even at the height of the snow-region may de- 
Viate- Very sensibly fro’ m that of the free columns of air removed from all 
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