302 Excessive Heat of the Summer of 1825. 
hand. There had not been for seven weeks the least moist- 
ure in the air, or the least dew on the leaves, and there had 
been a constantly burning sun, without clouds, and a parching 
wind from the north-east during the whole time. 
4. Extract of a Letter to the Editor, dated 
New York, July 22, 1825. 
We are suffering an intensity and continuance of heat, al- 
together unexampled ; to-morrow will be the fourteenth day, 
during which the thermometer has ranged from 88 to 92 and 
95.—frequently 87, at 7 o’clock in the morning, and little de- 
pression during the nights, which are suffocating. Nota drop 
of rain has fallen during this time; and except a little light- 
ning last evening no symptom of change. 
