METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, ] gV 



IX. 



Jiieteorohg'cd Restdts : hy James Clarke, M. Z>., 4-r.,- 

 laie Physician ta the Notiingham General Hospital, Sfc, 

 gn^ naw resident Physician at Sidmouth. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



-« HROUGH the medium of your Philosophical Journal Meteorological 

 I have for the last four years published an annual meteoro- «bsefvations 

 • , 11 11 1 ,• T 1 11., ^t Notting- 



logical taWe, deduced Irom a Journal, which I kept at ham, 



Nottingham; but being obliged, in consequence of serious 



indisposition, to change my residence to this place, the 



chain of observation is unfortunately broken. I send you 



jiovvever a table, which contains the result for the first six 



months complete, as taken at Nottingham ; and for the last 



four months of the year at Siduiouth. Two months are 



necessarily lost. As this place has been gradually and de- ^"^ ^^ ^ '^" 



^ervedly rising into favour as a retreat for consumptive and 



jdjebilitated invalides, a regular and accurate account of the 



feather becomes a matter of much interest to the public. 



Impressed with this opinion I waited only for the arrival of 



jpay barometer, &c,, from Nottingham, to commence my 



observations upon the same plan that 1 had hitherto fol- jhe latter t» 



Jowed, and which my residence herein the practice of my ^* <^o"'-'""Sfi«» 



profession will enable me to continue. 



Sidmouth, as its name imports, is situate on the banks of situation of 



the Sid, u very small river which here enters the sea ; the S dmonth. 



town is built in a beautiful vale bounded on both sides by 



long lofty hills, which form its eastern and western sides; 



and toward the north it is screened by Gittishara and Honi- 



ton hills ; but it is completely open to the south, where the 



sea forms a pretty little bay, bounded by Salcombe hill on 



the east, and Peak hill on the west. This is one of the 



small bays nearly in the middle of that large bay, which is 



bounded on the east by the Isle of Portland, and on the 



west by the Start Point. Thus protected, it is not surpris- -, . 



/ _. , , , ', , r I*« adrantare 



mg, that Sidmouth, among the places lecomraended on totheinfalid*. 



the 



