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BAKERS NORTH YORkSItIRE;. 



The foregoing are all taken from the Meteorological Society's 

 Reports. The following notes of minima refer to the same 

 night and are taken from the list which appeared in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle ; but whether here in all cases the ther- 

 mometers were accurate and properly hung may fairly be 

 doubted. 



Locality. 



Minimum 

 on the night of 

 Dec. 25th, i860. 



Authority. 





lo-o 

 8-0 

 4-0 

 o-o 



2-0 



— 3-0 



— 6-0 



— 8-0 



— no 



— 12'0 



—13-0 



J. McLean. 



G. Legard. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



Mr. Abbey. 



Mr. Bell. 



Doncaster Gazette. 



Mr. Cox. 



Mr. Culverwell. 



Mr. Turner. 







Coneyst horpe 



Kirkham 





Wakefield 





Bedale 



Thorp Perrow near Bedale ... 

 Newton Ho.use near Bedale... 



The English and Welsh Counties in which, upon the authority of 

 the same list, the thermometer sunk down to zero, or below, are 

 Northumberland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, 

 Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, 

 Norfolk, Warwickshire, Suffolk, Brecknock, Hereford, Gloucester, 

 Oxford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertford, and Essex. 

 Here we see well exemplified what has already been pointed 

 out — how that the extremes of winter cold are cut off upon 

 and near the coast in the south and west, and how that they 

 are most extreme in the interior of the lowland country and in 

 the east. Ben Rhydding, Harrogate, and Otley are all some- 

 what elevated stations in West Yorkshire, and at Allenheads 

 the minimum does not fall so low as that of Bywell by 5, and 

 as that of York by 12 degrees. The four stations to which 

 Mr. Legard's observations relate are each within five miles of 

 the others. Easthorpe stands upon the calcareous Howardian 

 terrace at an elevation of 350 feet above the sea-level ; Castle 



