Miscellanies. ee SM 
Mean temperature of the cold week, beginning Sun- 
day, the 4th, at sunrise, = - - ~ 18} 
at 1$ P.M., - - — 38 
at 94 P. M., - - —61 
of the week, - - —7 
Mean temperature of the last 19 days, at sunrise, 254 
at 1$ P.M. 35 
at 9¢ P. M. 272 
of the whole, 29% 
F'rom the Connecticut Journal. 
The following extracts from a ‘Thermometrical Register kept by 
the late President Stiles at Yale College for a period of twelve years, 
will serve to show that what in former times have been called severe 
winters, will not compare as to intensity, with the cold of last week, 
on the Monday of which, several different thermometers in this city 
stood at 24°, and one at 26$° below cypher. 
Every instance is given, in which the thermometer fell as low as 
cypher, and in those winter months in which it did not descend so 
low, the lowest degree of cold for that month is specified. iH. 
1780.—Jan. 23, 31°— at 9A.M.; 29, 1°— at sunrise.—Feb. 
6, coldest this month 6° -+.—Dec. 29, coldest this month, 18°+. 
1781. Jan. 8, coldest this month 131°+-. Feb. 12, 0 at sun- 
rise.* Dec. 19, coldest day this month 15°+. 
1782. Jan. 30,5°—, at8 A. M.; 31, 51°—, half past six A. 
M. Feb. 1, coldest day this month, 2°-++-. Dec. 16, coldest day 
this month, 11°-++. | 
1783. Jan. 9, 74°— at sunrise; 15, 21°— athalf past nine P. 
M. Feb. 3,8°— at 7 A.M. Dec. 20, coldest day this month, 
13°+. ' 
1784. Jan.9,14°- at8A.M.; 16,0 at 10 A. M.; 17, 24° 
—atsunrise. Feb. 9, 2°— at sunrise; 10, 82° — at sunrise; 13, 
7°o—at 8A. M.; 14,7°—at 7 A. M.; 15, 6°-—at 7 A. M.; 16, 
6°—at 8A. M.; 29,1°9-—at 7 A.M. March 1,0 at9A.M.; 2, 
3° -at7 A. M. Dec. 23, 1° —at sunrise. 
1785. Jan. 31, #°—at 7A.M. Feb. 4, coldest day this month 
9°+. Dec. 29, coldest this month, 6°+. , 
* Note by President Stiles—From 7th to 13th, surveyed the harbor on the ice, 
to five-mile point. 
