POOLE — ON METEOROLOGY. §5 



duriug the course of the year. There does not appear to be any 

 regularity or uniformity either in direction or time. In Ja,nu- 

 ary the wind backed on the 17th, and a gale from S. E. on the- 

 18th marked a pressure of 44 lbs per square foot. On the 21st 

 the wind Avent round with the sun, and a gale from E. and X. 

 lasted for the next three days. Another gale on the 30th was 

 from the N. W. In February the wind was high all the month ; 

 the heaviest gale on the 10th and 11th began from S. W. and 

 S., then went to N. W., and the wind made one entire revolu- 

 tion with the sun during the whole month. In March there was 

 not any very heavy gale, only high wind on the 2nd from the S. 

 with rain, on the 18th from N. W. with snow, and on the 27th 

 from S. E. with mist, after which the wind went round against 

 the sun. On the 17th April the wind backed from E. N. E. to 

 E. S. E. and blew for three days, with snow and sleet, produc- 

 ing a silver thaw. On the 2nd May a gale with rain from 

 S. S. W. On the I8th wind round with the sun from N. to» 

 E., blew a gale all the 19th from the north, and lobsters and' 

 codfish driven on shore in large numbers. On the 4th June a 

 snow storm with wiud from the west ; 5 feet of _snow fell be- 

 tween Cape North and Grandance ; on the 19tli a gale front 

 W. S. W. with light showers of rain. In July the highest 

 winds were on the 1st from the west, and on the 29th from 

 ihe S. W., but neither of them amounted to a gale. On the- 

 3rd August a gale from the S. W. blew down trees, and the- 

 dry wind blasted the leaves of many plants, and withered themv>- 

 On the night of the 1st September, with high wiud from S.;,. 

 rain measured from 6 p. m. to 8 a. m. on the 2nd, or fourteeife 

 hours, the unusual quantity of 4 33-100 inches. On the 30tlfe 

 a gale from S. E. all day with lightning and thunder, and com- 

 tinned on the 1st October from the S. W. High wind on the 

 6th from S. E. with raiu, and on the 26th from north with raiu. 

 On the 2d and 3d November with squalls of rain from W.N. TV. ; 

 on the 13th gale from S. S. E. ; on the 16th from the S. E. ; and 

 on the 30th from S. E. then S. with three quarters of an inch of 

 rain. On the 14th December a snow storm from the north blew 

 68230 revolutions in the 24 hours, equal to a velocity of 1364 

 miles ; or at a rate of 56,8 miles per hour. There was also a. 



