ChAvieni&gne ot tlie fe'estaHishment of the ^Mrapii-e. Then \t-e liav^ 

 the usual astronomical notices of eclipses, and an extremely well" 

 ^-ritten and Correct article on the different kinds of solar time, and 

 then to the calendar proper, each month being headed by a rude 

 Ivrood-cut of its proper constellation, ^nd each day connected with 

 some saint or martyr^ or with ecclesiastical regulations^ and the 

 tQoon*3 ages and siJn's signs interspersed. 



A table of meteorological observations at the observatory of Bo'^ 

 ^ota, for the months of October atid November, 1862, gives some 

 interesting results. In October the mealn temperature of the air" 

 Iras about 60^ degrees Fahrenheit, which is about twelve degrees 

 higher than at Toronto for the same period, though it must be re- 

 iiJarked that the observations at Bogota were taken in the daytime 

 and are thus unduly exalted above the Toronto ones, which include 

 6 A.M. and midnight ; but Bogota seems less subject to those sudden 

 changes which make the Climate of Toronto so trying-^^-the extreme 

 deviation in the former place being about 9 degrees while in the lat^ 

 ter it is no less than 44. The amount of rainfall Was 6-36 inches, 

 tvhile at Toronto it was about 2^, but at Bogota nearly the whole 

 fell between the 20th day and the end of the months Similarly, the 

 mean temperatiife for November was 59®. 8, contrasting with 35®. (J 

 for Toronto, and while the extrerrle range for Bogota appears to be 

 about 8 degrees, that of Toronto is nearly 40. The rainy season 

 continues dkiring this month, the fall being upwards of nine inches^ 

 with only four fair days thronghoatj while at Toronto the fall (in-^ 

 eluding suow) Was undet three inches, and there were fifteen days 

 without either snow or rain. The mean height of the barometer i's 

 about tvi-enty-two inches, and Bogota must therefore be situated at 

 an immense heightj some eight of nine thousand feet,- above the sea^ 

 level; our author in C0njuncti<jn with e/ Se^or William ChandUsSi 

 illusttado viajero (the rough SaXon vocables sound oddly amidst the 

 smooth Castilian) has determined the height above Honda to be 

 24SS metres, but he says that he waits for the observation of the 

 Senor Chandless at Cdrthagenaj; in order' to determine the height of 

 his observatory above the sea» 



In a page surrounded with black lines our Almartac mourns the 

 jperdida irreparadle-^the irreparable loss — caused by the death of 

 the illustrious and modest Senor Lino de Pombo (who appears to 

 have been a mathematical Professor in the military college of Bogota) 



