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any mechanics in the country. There are carriages 

 now in use upon the island, that were built here, which 

 in point of style, beauty of finish, strength, and dura- 

 bility can hardly be surpassed elsewhere. The Nan- 

 tucket baskets for durability cannot be excelled, and 

 are fine specimens of workmanship. The greater part 

 of these baskets are made on the light-ships during 

 the long and stormy winter months. 



Meteorological. 



What data and memoranda the compiler has been 

 able to collect in regard to this subject are rather scant 

 and unsatisfactory. Since the deaths of Capt. C. H. 

 Coleman and Walter Folger, Esq., no one seems to 

 have kept any record of the weather, except for theit 

 own private use. What little information he has been 

 able to obtain is given below. Wm. C. Folger, Esq., 

 who has a remarkably retentive memory for a man of 

 his years, says that he does not remember that he ever 

 saw the mercury fall as low as eleven degrees below 

 zero but once in his life, or that it reached a higher 

 point than ninety degrees on Nantucket. The writer 

 himself can vouch for the fact that in a certain locality 

 in Nantucket, during the exceptionally hot weather of 

 the summer of 1881, a " Kendall " thermometer at no 

 time marked over eighty-six degrees. 



From a careful examination of a record of the tem- 

 perature kept by the late Capt. Charles H. Coleman for 

 many years, and kindly loaned the compiler by the 

 family of Capt. Coleman, the following facts have been 

 ascertained : — 



From the first day of January, 1876, to July 26, 



