/Meteorological Journal. 333 
Arr. XVIL—* Abstract of a Meterological Journal kept at 
Deerfield, (Mass.) beginning March 1817, and ending 
November 1818. North latitude 42° 34' 32". West 
longitude 72° 39' from London ; by Enwarp Hitcx- 
cock, A. M. to which is added a Meteorological Table, 
kept at Albany, by Dr. T. R. Becx. | 
_ Tats abstract embraces nothing but the range of the 
thermometer, direction of the winds, and state of the weath- 
er. The thermometer used was an ordinary one, with Fah- 
renheit’s scale ; and on examining it by a test, it was found 
.to vary one degree from the truth. This allowance was 
_made in forming this abstract. The situation of the ther- 
_mometer was on the second story ofa brick building, twenty 
feet from the ground, where it was not exposed to the direct 
or reflected rays of the sun. Several circumstances render- 
ed it necessary for me to fix on 7h. A. M. 11 P.M. and 10 
PM. for the hours of observation in the winter, and on 6h. 
A.M.2 P.M. and 10 P.M. in the summer. Iam sensible 
the observations . were not, on these several accounts, of the 
most delicate kind; but believing them to give a tole- 
rably correct view of the temperature of this climate, and 
knowing of no journal of this kind kept in this vicinity, I 
presume to offer this to your consideration. \ My thermom- 
-eter has accidentally been broken, or I should continue the 
journal so,as to make out complete years before sending it 
10 VOU. 
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a SSE e etal SISIEIe 
Th |1d.| 10h.) % BIE lE/ SIE] /=/8|3 
| aif A.M|P MIP. MSS liz [ale He |S le ln 1S 
tSa7, S Highest | B6i | Sse a taale loco ANT be ke 
& 4 Mean... 25 | 40 |.28 31 1/8 |16)}12) 4) 3] 1} 7 
= ( Lowest. |g! 39. 11 Lie! | 
Saye cil 68 | 76 | 65 | | 
aoe 40 | 52 | 40$\44- {| 6] 8116]|16] 5|.3] 2) 4 
L. 30/35 4.31 | | 
» Numbers without any sign are above Zero ;—with the negative, below. 
* This communication was received in the winter of 1818—19; and the 
Vditor regrets the long delay in publishing it, but the facts are still valua- 
ble. - 
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