34 Observations o?i Tasmanian Statistics. 



Of the town and suburban allotments, the quantity soldinl849 

 was 241 acres, producing at the average of £5 4s. l\d. per 

 acre £1256. In 1850 the quantity had fallen considerably 

 below the average of preceding years. In 1851 the quantity 

 was 529 acres, realizing at£5 19^. l^d. per acre £3154 ; in 

 1 852, 700 acres, at the highest average of £7 1 Qs. 3|^., £5472; 

 and in 1853 the smaller quantity of 287 acres produced, at 

 the average price of £39 106'. ^^d. per acre, £11,344. This 

 higher average of price may be ascribed also to the fact 

 already referred to, of so many adventurers having returned 

 from the gold-fields with money in their pockets, and 

 auxious to secure for themselves and their families a settled 

 residence in the towns, as well as to the fact of the lots 

 offered being more favourably situated, and therefore, under 

 ordinary circumstances, of greater value. It will also be 

 observed that the country lots have not advanced in pro- 

 portion ; and much of the land exposed for sale is probably 

 such as, under the circumstances of ordinary times, would 

 have brought even less than the average price. 



Table 44, the last of the series, is a synopsis of the 

 meteorological observations kept at the Royal Observatory 

 in the Queen's Domain for the last ten years. The mean 

 pressure of the atmosphere, corrected down to the standard 

 temperature of 32" Fahrenheit, is tabulated in the first 

 column for each year ; and the mean for the whole decennial 

 period is 29'7614. Of far greater importance to the comfort 

 and health, as well as to the material interests of the inhabi 

 tants, is the mean temperature, given in the next column, which 

 ranges from a minimum of 51 in 1849 to a maximum of 54'37 

 in 1850 ; the mean of the whole ten years being 52'81. This, 

 however, it must be borne in mind is only the mean tem- 

 perature of the place where these observations were taken, 

 in the immediate vicinitv of Kobart Town ; and that, before 



