Miscellanies. 



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That August was about 2° warmer than the other summer months, 

 and that the temperature of June and July was about the same. That 

 the highest temperature within the year was 88°, and was the same 

 on the 21st of July and the 2d of Sept. ; that the lowest was 19° 

 below zero, and was the same on the 31st of January and the 7th of 

 February. But it fell below zero fourteen nights within the months 

 of January and February. The range of the thermometer was much 

 the greatest in the month of February, being 73° ; and the least 45°, 

 in the month of November. The range within tlie year was 107°. 

 The whole quantity of water, which fell in rain, hail and snow, was 

 36.1 inches : snow, 64 inches : lightning and thunder, on fifteen days : 

 Aurora Borealis, on twenty-eight evenings. 



Although the temperature of the last twelve months was precisely 

 the same, as that of the twelve months preceding,* yet from the fol- 

 lowing table it will be found, that those periods were very different 

 in some other things. 



TABLE. 



The last twelve months have been unusually dry in Vermont. A 

 severe drought commenced on the 19th of July, and from that day 

 till the 25th of September, a period of sixty-eight days, there fell but 

 1.4 inch of rain. Within the same period in 1828, there fell 14.7 

 inches. The severe drought proved injurious to some of the later 

 crops. But notwithstanding the summer was almost 3° colder, and 

 we had but about one-third the quantity of rain which fell in the sum- 

 mer preceding, yet the aggregate of crops of the latter, was quite 

 equal to that of the former. The autumn, and fore part of the win- 

 ter, were unusually mild, and we had no frost to prevent our farmers 

 from plowing their lands, till the 10th of January. 



Vegetation is now very forward. Many of our apple-trees are in 

 blossom ; a circumstance which I have no recollection of witnessing 



See .Journal of Science, &c. Vol. XVI, p, 288. 



