BY THE REV. R. F. WHEELER, M.A. 389 



Barometer— Mean height at 8 a.m., 29-730; highest, 30'255 

 on the 15th and 22nd ; lowest, 28-687 on the 1st. 



Thermometer — Mean, 44-66° ; mean of fourteen years, 89-36°, 

 excess of 1869, 5-80^; highest, 62° on the 6th; lowest, 29° on 

 the 18th. Mean of wet bulb, 89-86° ; of dry bulb, 42-93°. 



Eainfall — 1-56 inches; greatest in twenty-four hours, 0-29 

 inch on the 1st ; days of fall, thirteen. 



Height of river, 4-9 feet ; highest, 17-5 feet on the 8th. 



Wind— Eesultant, W., 11° S. 



North Shields. — The maximum temperature recorded was 59° 

 on the 5th, and the minimum 30° on the 28th. On only one 

 day was the temperature on the grass below 32°. 



Hartlepool. — On the 14th we had a strong gale of wind, which 

 reached a maximum of 10, Beaufort's scale, between. 6 and 

 9 A.Bi., from W. by N. The barometer was reported to be 

 falling all over the United Kingdom, with a gale from the west- 

 ward, and clouds or rain, except in Cornwall, where the sky 

 was clear. It was however rising in France, and at Paris it was 

 one inch higher than at Nairn. The wind was generally strong- 

 est on the east coast, but nowhere so high as at Hartlepool, 

 except at Ardrossan, on the west coast of Scotland, which at 

 the time was nearly to windward of this place. Mean force of 

 wind during the month was 4-3. 



The greatest fall of rain was 0-93 inch on the 1st. Eain fell 

 on fifteen days. 



The greatest height of crest of wave over the general level of 

 the sea was three feet on the 2nd. For twenty days it was less 

 than one foot. On the 26th there was a high tide which reached 

 22*4 feet above the cill of the dock gates at Hartlepool, and con- 

 sequently was 19 feet above low water of ordinary spring tides. 

 Besides being an equinoctial spring tide, it appears to have been 

 further raised by the winds, which are reported to have been 

 south-westerly, or in the direction of the tide wave in the At- 

 lantic on the 25tli, and to have changed to the north-west when 

 it rounded the north of Scotland. 



