56 POOLE ox METEOROLOGY. 



gale from the S. E. ou the night of the ilth, iiccorapanied with 

 lisrhtnhig Miid thuncler. 



On the 15th February the first drift ice was seen passing 1o 

 the sonth. 



On the lOtli March very tine Aurora Borealis, showing five 

 lines of curtains, one above the other at 8 p. m., colored, and 

 extending from Corna Berenicis to Capella. 



March 29th, heard blue birds singing, — 28th ice left the 

 Bay. 



April lOth, saNv a small butterfly, heard robins, — 12th, 

 first herrings cnnght in the Bay, — Kith, frogs heard. 



May 6th, saw first bee, — 18th, first snake, brown, — 16th, first 

 swallows. 



June 4th, heard musquito hawks, — 5th, dandelion in bloom, — 

 0th, heard a loon, — 12th, saw swallow tailed butterfly, — 13th, 

 blue butterfly and Camberwell beauty. 



Jul}^ 8th, fireflies, — 14tli, bat, — 19th, gathered mushrooms. 



August 6th, flight of v/inged ants, — 20th, curlew and plover 

 arrived. 



October 22nd, saAv a glowworm by side of the road. 



November 5th. tide ebbed and flowed four times. 



December 8th, '• cock-a-wies (anas glacialis) in the Bay; 



they remain here all winter, and go north in spring, — 11th, 



wild geese last seen in the bay, — 31st was the coldest day in 



the year, when the thermometer marked 4 below zero at night, 



and only 1 degree above zero at noon. Shocks of earthquake were 



felt throughout the State of New I'ork ; the barometer on the 1st 



January, 1868, stood at 30.53, with thermometer attached, at 42 ; 



and on the 2nd January, barometer 28.97, with thermometer 



ittached 50, showing a fall of 1.56 inch of pressure in 24 



iours, and though occurring in 1868, I have mentioned it, as it 



»iay have been caused by the earthquakes which were being 



dt in the United States and Canada. 



