ALLISON — ON METEOROLOST. «3^ 



the mean. Eaiii storms occurred on the 4th, 11th, 16th, and 

 30th, and 5 1-4 inches of snow fell in this month. Since 1857 

 I have no record of so much snow in November, except in 

 Windsor in 1850, when 6 3-4 inches fell. On the 20th, 21st, 

 22nd and 23rd, there was tolerable sleighing in the city. In 

 the N. E. of this Province, and the central counties of Colchester 

 and Hants, there was good sleighing on the 15th, and it lasted 

 twelve and thirteen days. A very unusual occurrence. The 

 mean temperature, 36°. 60, was very low; and a great degree of 

 cold for the season, 13°, was reached on the 20th, while as early 

 as the 7th the thermometer marked before sunrise but 14°. 59® 

 was the maximum, giving the wide range of 46°. This, again, 

 was a windy mouth, and some damage was done by a strong 

 gale on the early morning of the 3rd, swinging from N. W. to 

 S. W., following four showery days, and preceding a rain storm 

 with high S. E. and S. winds. Another gale rose as the storm 

 of 30th cleared, and blew fiercely from W. during the last hours 

 of the month. Many ponds in the neighbourhood of Halifax 

 bore well on the 8th, and good skating was general on 19th. 

 Once more were we disappointed here in the great meteoric 

 shower, which was visible generally throughout America and 

 Europe. For six daj^s before the lookecl-for 14th fog and thick 

 cloud, rain and snow had obscured our skies, and, though a partial 

 clearing on the verj^ afternoon excited some hopes, night closed 

 in dark and Vv^et, and the opportunity was lost. 



December generally the most cloudy month of the year, was 

 wanting in 1867 in that characteristic. Detached showers were 

 most common, and though parts of many days were bright, we 

 escaped without rain or snow but on 6. The snow fall was most 

 extraordinary, 27 1-4 inches, against an average of but little 

 over 10. On 23 days we had sleighing ; but the snow came 

 generally in small amounts, the only fall of any consequence 

 belr.g on 20th-21st. The maximum temperature, 43°. 4, was 

 vcrv low, and in every year that I have recorded has risen 

 above that. The minimum, -7°. 9, was lower than I have ever 

 observed in Halifax; but in Windsor, on Christmas Eve, 1865, 

 the thermometer marked -8°, and on 21st in 1862, -7°. 5. Bui; 

 the most remarkable result of this month's record is the exces- 



