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NOTES. 



Tenth Month. 12. Windy: wet evening. 13. Much vvind^ * 14. A shower befoi-e 

 nine a.m. at w»\ich time occuncd the max- of temp. 15 Much dew on the grass ; 

 serene day.- twilight milky, with converging streaks of red. Kj. a m. Much dew: a 

 mist on the river: the smokt of the city remarkably depressed, and sounds uinisually 

 stronij frcm thence; some thunderclouds appeared and passed to E. 17. Cumulus 

 clouds surmounted with chrostratus, and cirri above. 18. A very wet mist a. m. 

 ■wind N.W. : at two p. m. cloudy; very moist air, tlie dew point (or temperature at 

 which a body colder than the air condenses water from it) being 03": about sunset, 

 at temp. Q^", I found dew just b ginning to be deposited on the grass : it rained hard 

 about five next morning. 19. a. m. Misty, sm:ili raiji : p. m clear: ivening, cirri very 

 elevated, and long coloured red 5 vl stratus iorming. 20. Misty; then ovy;Tast: the 

 wind, which had been £., veering by S. : abundance of gossamer. A quicken-trea 

 {sorbus aucvparia) exhibits a new set of leaves and blossoms along with the ripe berries: 

 21 . Gray morning, with little dew and a stroi.g breeze. 22- a. m. Dew scarce percep- 

 tible : wind veers to S., a breeze : p. m. very cloudy, vvith showers : much wind at 

 night. 24. At mid day a drizzling rain, during which the vane turned to E. 25. 

 Clear, fine day: wind veered to S. : at sunstt nimbi and cirrostrati in S. W. : heavy 

 shower by eleven p.m. 26. Showery: a line rainbow at ten a.m. 27. a.m. Nimbi 

 in different quarters, mixed with cumulus and cirrostratusj beneath large plumose cirrus 

 clouds. 28. a.m. Clear, mucltd^w, nimbi forming smidst various clouds : vane at 

 N. E. : p ni. a shower in the S., during which appearetl, for a short time, a numerous 

 flight of swallows: they had been last observed on the I5th : the wind returned by 

 S. to N. W. with much cloud and rain. 30. At nine a. m. the rain intermitting, 

 the higliest and most considerable mass of clouds was moving from W. an intermedii 

 ate portion from S., and the wind below fresh at E. : in this statp of things sounds 

 came very freely from the westward, and by eleven the wind was S. W. ; at three 

 p. ra. distinct nimbi and a bright bow : showery at night, with a lunar halo. 31 . a. m. 

 Clear : the sun and moon appeared red on the horizon : at night, the wind being S. 

 sounds came hud from the W. 



Eleventh Month, l. a.m. Much cloud: wind fresh at S. W. 2. As yestejday : 

 stormy at night 3. A rainbow at eight a. m. 4. a.m. Nimbi to ■windward: at sun^ 

 set, the dense clouds in the E. finely coloured : rainbow : wind W. 5. a. m., Stormy -, 

 p. m. wet. 6. Cloudy, showery : evening, abundance of cirrostratus : a wet nijht. 



RESULTS. 



Barometer: highest observation 30-21 inches; lowest 28 65 inches; range ] 56 inches. 

 • Mean of the period 29-614 inches. 



Thermometer: highest observation 73° ; lowest 38°; range 35''. 



Mean of the period 54 86°. 



Evaporation 244 inches. Rain 305 inches. 



yV'ind with Utile exception S. W. and S. The fore part of the period changeable j the 

 latter wet, without the usual intervening frosty nights. 



L. HOWARD. 



VhkitToyi, Eleventh M».^Oi\^\\. * 



