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NOTES. 



First Month. 6. Very fine morning : wet evening: the night stormy 

 with much snow. 7. Snowy moi-ning, stormy day. 9. Snow fell 

 through the night, to about three inches depth. 10. a. m. Little 

 wind, changing to S. V/. : a thaw. London was this oay involved, for 

 several hours, in palpable darkness. The shops, offices, &c. were 

 necessarily lighted up; but, the streets not being lighted as at night, 

 it required no small care in the passenger to find his way, and aroid 

 accidents. The sky, where any light pervaded it, showed the aspect 

 of bronze ! Such is, occasionaliy, the effect of the accumulation of 

 Bunoke betweoQ two opposite gentle currents, or by means of a misty 

 calm. I am informed that the fuliginous cloud was visible, in this in- 

 stance, from a distance of forty miles. Were it not for the extreme 

 mobility of our atmosphere, this volcano of a hundred thousand 

 mouths would, in winter, be scarcely habitable ! 16. A dripping 

 mist 18. Misty morning. 19. Very cloudy: large lunar halo: 

 stormy night. 22. Snowy evening, 23, 24. Lunar halo. 28. Windy 

 night. 29 Windy morning : wet evening. 



Second Month. 2. Gloomy, with small rain at intervals. About 

 half past 7, p. m. the wind ro«e and blew furiously from E. and S. JS. 

 about an hour and a half, the Barom. fallinga quarter of an inch: 

 abating afterwards, it rose again, and the night was stormy. 



RESULTS. 



Winds from the N. and W. to the time of Full Moon, then from the 

 Eastward. 



Barometer: highest observation 30-25 inches; lowest 29*2S inches; 

 Mean of the period 29-899 inches. 



Thermometer : highest observation 50° ; lowest 26° j 

 Mean of the period 38°. 



Evaporation 1-40 inches. Rain, (including the products of snow) 

 1-29 inches. 



The observations on the Barometer for the period, and the greater 

 part of the Notes, were made at Stratford, by my friend John Gibson. 



London, L. HOWARD. 



Second M^nthy 22,1812, 



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