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"Wylam.— Cold till the 19th, with N.E. winds; after that fine 

 and pleasant. 



North Shields. — About 5 p.m. on the 8th two mock suns were 

 visible, one on either side of, and at equal distance from, the 

 sun, while towards the zenith, at apparently the same distance 

 from the sun, there was an inverted arch of very brilliant pris- 

 matic colours. The sky was quite clear at the time. 



June. — 



If on the eighth of June it rain, 

 It foretels a wet harvest, men sain. 



Old Proverb. 



Greenwich. — The mean temperature of June was 59*2°, being 

 1° higher than the average of 101 years. The daily range of 

 temperature was greater than the average. 



The range of reading of the barometer was only eight-tenths 

 of an inch. 



The fall of rain was 0*3 inch in defect of the average. 



North Sunderland. — A great want of sunshine and great elec- 

 tric disturbances marked the last half of this month. 



Eothbury. — Thermometer highest on the 16th and 18th. Yery 

 heavy thunderstorm from the S."W. on the 18th. 



Meldon, near Morpeth. — From the 1st to the 14th there was 

 only one fair day, namely, the 4th. The constant showers of 

 rain were a great hindrance to the cultivation of the soil. 



Wallington. — A remarkably fine month, with steady high tem- 

 perature and frequent showers. All green crops made much 

 . growth. 



"Wylam. — A fine month; barometer unsteady; thermometer 

 rising pretty gradually from a mean temperature of 50° at the 

 beginning, to 70 -5° on the 18th, and the gradually falling to 54° 

 at the end of the month. On the 18th we had a thunderstorm, 

 when 0*10 inch of rain fell here; but at Newcastle the thunder 

 and lightning were almost incessant and very near ; and the rain 

 which fell from 12} till 1 p.m., almost the heaviest I ever saw, 

 at least 1*12 inches being received into the guage of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society in that town. 



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