BY THE REV. H. F. WHEELER, BI.A. U 



July. — Spenser's description of July :— 



" Then came hot July, boUing like a fire, 

 That all his garments he had cast away," 



would certainly not be descriptive of July, 1867. The amount 

 of cloud was great, and there was little sunshine. 



The mean temperature at Greenwich was 59*4°, being 2° 

 lower than the average of the preceding ninety-six years, and 

 lower than that of any year since 1841, excepting 1862, which 

 was 59-1°. 



The fall of rain throughout England was 3'2 inches above the 

 average in July. On the 25th a heavy rain began to fall through- 

 out the South of England, and continued almost uninterruptedly 

 next day. The amount registered varied from 1^ to 3f inches, 

 being probably the heaviest rainfall known there. 



Wylam. — A fine month, with a good deal of chill, cold wea- 

 ther whenever the wind came at all from the north. Indeed 

 this appeared to me (G. C. A.) to be unusually the case this year, 

 and suggested the idea that the ice-line in the North Sea might 

 be occupying a more southerly position than ordinary. 



Mean height of barometer 29"768. Mean temperature, 57'51° 

 which is 1'2° below the average. 



The take of salmon in the Tyne this year has been enormous. 

 On the 15th, 376 salmon (averaging 9lb each, and no grilse or 

 trout among them) were taken at the bar — i. e., at the mouth of 

 the Tyne — at one haul of the net ; by far the largest haul within 

 the memory of man. During the season, the price in the shops 

 in Newcastle seldom fell to lOd. per lb, or 9d. for an uncut fish ; 

 but at the fisheries whole fish were bought on two or three oc- 

 casions as low as 6d. per 1l3. 



Sedgefield. — On the 29th more than an inch-and-a-half of rain 

 fell (1-56 inches), and on the 31st more than two inches (2-05 

 inches), being the two heaviest falls during 1867. 



Whitfield.— On the 11th, 0-80 inch of rain fell between 2 p.m. 

 and 3 p.m. On the night of the 25th the thermometer fell to 



