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coast. The great volcanic chain of the Andes, Etna, Vesuvius, 

 Teneriffe, Mount Erebus, are all close to the sea. Out of two 

 hundred and twenty-five volcanos which are known to have been 

 in eruption over the whole earth within the last one hundred and 

 fifty years, I remember only a single instance of one more than 

 three hundred and twenty miles from the sea, and even that 

 is on the edge of the Caspian, the largest of all the inland seas : 

 I mean Mount Demavend, in Persia." 



Very little attention has been, comparatively speaking, paid to 

 this subject by scientific observers hitherto, but the remarkable 

 eruptions of 1868 seem to have attracted enquiry to the subject, 

 and it is to be hoped that as it is more thoroughly investigated, 

 we shall soon come to a clearer understanding of the laws which 

 regulate the phenomena of the earthquake and volcano. 



The editor now gladly proceeds to give a summary of the 

 notes on the months, which have been supplied by the very able 

 staff" of contributors who labour so well in this department of 

 the work of the Tyneside Club. 



NOTES ON THE MONTHS. 



January. — 



' ' When the grass grows in Janiveer, 

 It grows the worse for't all the year." 



— Old Pronerb. 



Greenwich. — The wind was cold during the first eleven days 

 of the year ; for this period the deficiency of daily temperature 

 averaged 6^° daily. On the 12th the wind changed from N.E. 

 to S.W., and the temperature increased to above the average. 

 The mean temperature for the month was 37"2°, being 1° higher 

 than the average of 97 years, and 3° higher than January, 

 1867. At Kew Observatory the mean height of the barometer 

 for the month was 29'890 ; the highest reading was on the 20th, 

 80*314, the lowest was 29-053. The velocity of the vsdnd was 

 generally moderate up to midnight on the 12th. During the 

 next two days it blew at the rate of twenty to thirty miles an 

 hour. The 24th was the most stormy day, the velocity being 

 thirty- seven miles an hour at midnight. 



