298 Excessive Heat of the Summer of 1825. 
ef both, permitted the horse and the ox to remain undisturbed 
at home. 
Salem, Massachusetts, July 13.—Terrible weather—some of 
our glasses in the shade are as high as 104. Several gentle- 
‘men who have been in Mocha, when for many days the ther- 
mometer stood from 102 to 108, say they never felt the heat 
more oppressive there. 
Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 12.—The weather yes- 
terday and the day before was oppressively hot. The ther- 
mometer stood 95 on Sunday and 98 on Monday. 
Dover, New Hampshire, July 12.—On Sunday last, at 3 
o’clock, P. M. the thermometer in the shade stood at 97, one 
degree higher, we believe, than it had stood before this season. 
(In one place it stood at upwards of a hundred.) On Mon- 
day, at noon, the thermometer stood at 94.—At 2 P. M. at 
99 in the shade of a tree. 
Portland, Maine, July 11.—The weather on Sunday was 
unusually hot and oppressive—about two o’clock the mercu- 
ry in the thermometer rose to 93, and continued at that height 
almost the whole afternoon, and at sunset 91. In the even- 
ing there was much sharp lightning, and about ten o’clocka 
smart shower. 
New Bedford, Massachusetts, July 12.—Our thermometer 
stood at 90 degrees yesterday (Monday) morning before 
sunrise ; about noon the mercuryrose to 95 in the shade, and 
varied very little from that point till sunset. 
Several persons died at Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 19, 
in consequence of drinking cold water, and the heat of the 
weather. 
A thermometer in the shade, in the village of Pennyan, 
Yates county, New York, stood at 106, on Sunday, July 7, at 
12 o’clock. 
Orange Springs, Virginia, July 20.—Thermometer 99 in 
the shade. ; 
Albany, New York, July 20. The thermometer at the aca- 
demy, on Monday night at 9 o’clock, was 81. Yesterday at 
7 A. M. 91. 
Newburgh, New York, July 19.—The heat on the 10th, 
11th, and 12th of this month, was more oppressive than has 
been experienced for a number of years. ‘The thermometer 
in this village, fluctuated during the three days from 90 to 98 
degrees, in cool situations, 
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