Meteorological Journal of Marietta, Ohio. 217 
_ Spring months.—The mean temperature of spring was 50°69, 
which is nearly two degrees below the average, this season vary- 
ing in different years from fifty to fifty-seven degrees. 
summer months.—The mean for summer was 69°'80, which is 
rather below the usual temperature for this season of the year, 
the mercury at no time rising above 92°. 
_ Autumn months.—The temperature for autumn is 50°51, which 
is two or three degrees below the average. In the year 1854, 
the mean of this season was 56°°50, a notable variation. The 
first snow fell on the 24th of the month of November, about 
half an inch, but melted away in a few days. 
Remarks on the year 1861.—The year has not been marked by 
any great extremes of temperature—the coldest day being two 
degrees above zero, and the hottest, ninety-two degrees. There 
The latter = of September excessive rains fell on the head- 
and branches of the Alleghany, Monongahela and Kan- 
awha rivers, causing destructive flood , 
“pecially that of the Big Kanawha. The rain commenced on 
the 26th of September, in the afternoon, and by Sunda morn- 
ing at one o'clock, the river at Charleston had risen fifty-eight 
— began to rise on Friday evening, and in twelve hours 
Tose forty-five feet, nearly four feet an hour; a proof of the ex- 
cessive rains in the mountains at the head of the stream. The 
‘ vages on this river were greater than on any other, destroying 
the salt works and all the crops within its reach. 
Jet orders of the Alleghany river no 
‘struction of crops, but also in the 1 
boards and lumber of all kinds. The Ohio river, 
eta, on the 29th and 80th of September, was covered with 
pawracing saw logs, boards, bridges and fences, with the dead 
aap of many domestic animals. 
did not overflow the town. Crops 
Was not unusually high; and the crops suffered less 
Many other reer he Little Kanawha was higher than ever 
# See this Jour.. xxxii, 296. 
AM. Jour, Sci.—Sscoxp Series, Vor. XXXIII, No. 98.—Marcz, 1862. 
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