1853,] 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



213 



""Where there is a will there is a way," is au old adage, and what 

 Alexander the Great said to a lialtiug, doiibtiug snbajtern, is true 

 forever, " There is nothiug impossible."' It the Gordiau knot will nut 

 be luiti'ed by hand nor teeth, untie it with tlic knife or sword. Col. 

 Curtis who has been the active liead of the Zinc Company from the 

 day of its organization until a few days since, when he resigned on 

 account of pressure of private business— but not until Uie success of the 

 enterprise was perfect— had snijaril v ..nounh t.. know that operators in 

 a new sort of enterprise niu-l ii:M l.'.ivii huw tn opcrntc, and as it re- 

 quired a large amount of sihuc.., ^klll. ^um! rx)RMMlinii-o, all his pre- 

 decessors ha\l been wearied or lVi;j,liteued from llie w.irk. He was not : 

 5ie hunted up the science and skifi, and the means to pay it well ; and 

 the result, after four years of au.xious and unceasing eftbrt, is a bnlhaut 

 reward of triumph to himself and co-laborers, and for the inmeral re- 

 sources of our countrv. 



The gi-eat impediment in the way of turning the Franklinite to ac- 

 count, was the trial of its ores in ill-adapted furnaces. In tlie common 

 iron furnace, Franklinite comes to a state of nature before it leaves the 

 furnace, and it only required the observation of a plain, unpretending 

 iron worker, to see, after a httle thouglit^ that furnaces of less height 

 and much clieapor. would obviate the ditHculty. The zinc was found, 

 also, to choke the furnaces in its escape from the iron, but the Zinc 

 Company discovered in a little time that this 15 or 20 per cent of zinc, 

 instead of raising tlie mischief with tlie Franklinite, could, by the ad- 

 dition of a simple apparatus to the furnace, be collected for paint, and 

 thus pay, nearly or quite, the cost of making the Franklinite ore into 

 iron, and the collection of the zinc ; opening a splendid field for the 

 manufacture of iron on J'ree-trade principles. The zinc and manganese 

 are finally found admirable, aye, invaluable coadjutors with the Frank- 

 linite, in promoting its working into iron. 



Monthly Meteorological Kegister, at Her Majesty's Magnetical Observatory, Toronto, Canada West.— March, 1853. 



jMtilitde 43 deq. 39.-1 mi.n. Nmlh. Longilnde, 79 deq. i21 min. West. Mlevation above Lake Ontario : 108 /<;<■<. 



h !l4 



Barom. al lein. of 3:2 cleg 



6 A.M. 12 P. M. 10 P. 31 I Mt 



29.231 

 .309 

 .41)0 



.mi 

 .5dH 

 .4.i6 

 30 15S 

 29S25 

 .71-2 

 oi: 

 .5f 

 .9J1 

 .9U- 

 .65} 

 2S.90I 

 29.yi0 

 .71S 

 .359 

 .321 

 .2S0 

 .412 

 .08.5 

 .177 

 .399 

 .642 

 .842 

 .416 

 .518 



29.303 

 .31 

 490 

 .471 

 .474 

 .4,57 

 .448 

 .751 

 .688 

 30.107 

 29.73S 

 .01)8 

 .515 

 .700 

 .901 



.90; 



.45i 

 .111) 

 .823 

 .576 

 .280 

 .334 

 .290 

 .486 

 .551 

 .052 

 .469 

 .619 

 .69; 

 .419 

 .451 



29.3231 

 .408 

 ..568 

 .484 

 .568 



.373 



•761 



30.022 



29 951 



29.740 



.566 



Temperature ofllieair. 



6.c..u,2p..i[. 10p.m. .ii'iN 



a.308 

 .3o7| 

 .523 



30 060 



2J.7ii3 



.510 



.819 

 .830 

 .790' 

 .301; 



.719' 

 .661! 



.4!)0 



Ml 29.551 2;) 635 2) 5 



34 3 139.5 



33 7 |37.1 



24 2 33.9 

 17,6 |2i.7 ■ 

 13.1 '31.0 

 18 3 34.4 



31 4 ;35.5 

 21.4 136 



37 3 



: 134 4 



33 I) 316 



18.3 !l5.7 

 -0 1 1:9.7 



6 5 129.8 



21.1 3i.6 

 339 40.2 



24.4 :36 2 



32 7 46 8 

 40 8 46.9 

 32 7 1 14.2 



30.2 '37.8 

 30 4 [36 S 

 26 6 145 



4 ;39 5 

 29 1 136.9 



5 8 '39.4 

 5 2 |46.0 



34 5 56 3 

 '34.3 



. ! 



25 65l35 99 



29 8 

 29 8 

 25 6 

 1S.3 

 263 



32,8 

 30.2 

 17.0 

 23.8 

 33 7 

 33.4 



97 



33.0 

 33 3 

 30.5 

 33. 9 

 35.9 



39.0 

 37.5 

 40.6 

 35 2 



6.v.m.'2r.ni.ll0p..Ai. jm'n 



34.72 

 33.03! 

 27.03 

 21,42, 

 23.60 



33.17 

 30 88 

 23.45 

 I8 60; 

 31.65 

 34.06 



131. 

 12.6.6 

 22.73; 

 3 



35 55| 

 31.07 



42.SS 

 37.10 

 33 93 

 32.55' 

 35.60 

 36.18 



32.37 

 37 25 

 ■13,95 



36 05 



Tension of Vapour. 



23. 65130, 6.5' 0.131 0.1620,142 l0.14, 



.179! 

 .164] 

 .049 

 .064 

 .1381 



.166 ! 

 .173 ; .180 



Huinidily of Air. 



8 A.M. 2 P.M. lOp.-ii 



86 



75 S3 



81 



2 p. M. 10 p. .M 



NW b N! 

 S W bS 

 ^fWbN 

 NWbN 



Calm. 

 W >f W 



s w 



W N W 



N E 



N NW 



NE b N 



ENE 



W S W| 



NW 



N W 



W S W 



NE 



NNE 



N W 



Gi.lm 



SWb Wi 



W N \V| 



iVWbW 



\VS W 



Calm 



E bN 



N N W 



N W 



Calm 



W 

 NNE 



NWbW 

 S WbS 

 SWbW 

 S S W 

 S\V b W 

 S b E 

 S S W 

 N b W 

 NW bN 

 E b N 

 N E bE 

 E bN 

 W bN 

 NWbW 

 W 

 SSW 



E 

 N W 

 S 

 SSW 

 S W b S 

 W N W 

 SW b W 



N W 

 SWbW 

 N E bE 



N W 



WbN 



Sb W 



W N W 



NE 



Calm 

 N 1) W 

 NWbW 



Calm. 



SSW 



Sb W 

 NNE 

 N\Vt.,N 



NE 



NE 

 Calm. 



W N W 

 W S "W 

 SE bS 



Ca!m. 

 W N W 



Sb W 



S AV 

 NNE 



Calm. 



WbN 

 Calm. 

 N W 



NE bN 



Rain 



in 

 Incli, 



S'n w 



in 

 Inch. 



Inap 

 Inap 



Inap 

 Inap 



Inap 

 Inap 



110 - - 

 ,050 - - 

 ,070 0.8 



.280 - 



.Vll's 4.69 MI'S 3.54 IWI's 4 06' 1 08 07. 1 



Greatesl da.iy range -26.0 bom 2 f.M, on Oil., lo_7Aavl un lOib, 



Warmest day - - 30ili - - - .Mean Temperature - 43 Oo ( Difference : 

 Coldest day - - - 15lb - - - Mean Temperature - 12.65 $ 31.3U 



The "Means" are derived from si.-i observations daily, viz., at 6 and 8 

 A. M., and2, 4, lOand 12, P. M. 



Aurora Observed on niahts. Possible lo observe Aurora on 16 nights. 



A distinct shock ol an Earthquake was felt in Toronto on Sunday, (he 

 13ih, between 5 and 6, A. M. {See Canadian Journal jor March) 



The Ice totallyjgone Irom Toronto Bay on the night orthe3Ut. 

 Comparative Table for MarcU. 



Swii 0] the Alnioi>pheric Current, ui miles, 

 directions. 



■tsolved irdo the four Cardinal 



North. 



1756.22 

 Mean velocity of the w 

 Maximum velocity - - 

 Most wmdy day - ■ 

 Least windy day - , 

 The column headed 



West. Soulh. East. 



2360.17 S55 37 631.71 



ind - - 5,87 miles fjer hour. 



- - - 26 ml'sperh'r, liom 1 to2 p.m. on 14th. 



- - - 14tli : Mean velociiy, 15.16 miles per hour. 



- - -1st: Mean veloeily, 1.93 ditto. 

 ' Magnet" is an attempt to distinguish the character 



of each clay, as regards the lieqnenc-y or e.xtent of the fluctuations of the 

 Magnetic decimation, inilicated by the self- registering instruments at Toronto. 

 The classilicaiioii is, to some extent, arbitrary, and may require future 

 modification, but has been lound tolerably definite as I'ar as applied. It is as 

 follows :— 



(ff) A marked absence of Magnelieal distnrbanee. 



(A) Unimportant movements, not lo be called disturbance. 



(r) .Marked disturbance— wnether shewn by frequency or amount of 

 deviation from the normal curve — liul of no great importance. 



{d) -A greater degree ordisliirhance — but not of long continuance. 



(f) Considernble dislin banco — lasting more or less the whole day. 



(/•) A Magnelieal disturbance of the first class. 



The day is reckoned from noon to noon. II two letters are placed, the first 

 applies 10 the earlier, the latter lo the later part of the trace. Although the 

 Declination is partieulaily rel<;rred to, it rarely happens that the same terms 

 are not applicable to the c-hanaes of the Horizontal Force also. 

 Highest Barometer - - 30463, at 8 A. M., on lOih * Monthly range: 

 Lowest Baromi-ler - - 23 392, al 8 A.M., on 18th S 1-276 inches. 

 Highest observed Temp. - 66 3, at 2 P. M., on 30th \ Monthly range ; 



Lowe.st regist'd Temp. 0.1, at 6 A.M., on 15th S 56.4 



Mean Highest observed remperature - - 36 .76 J Mean daily range: 

 Mean Thermometer Minimum- - - - - 21.94 5 14.S2 



