Meteorological Journal of Marietta, Ohio. 217 
feet during the year; an amount usually found only in tropical 
climate 
early. Many fields of wheat were not reaped at all, and left to 
decay on the grounds, or plowed in for the next crop. 
_ The weather being warm all through the summer and till late 
im the autumn, gave the Indian corn time to perfect its growth 
and ripen the grain before the setting in of frosts, thus saving 
the inhabitants of the west from’ the disastrous effects of a 
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summer months was nearly sixteen inches. The maximum heat 
99° on the 29th day of June. Although wet summers are ac- 
Counted to be sickly, yet no epidemic fevers prevailed; it was 
ealthy. 
53°26, varyin but little from that of 1859. During September 
and Oc Rive was no destructive frost, nor until the middle 
sd November, giving late planted corn time to ripen, which it 
had fully Accomplished by the last of October. In ordinary 
Years this crop is ready to be cut by the twentieth of Sep- 
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