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Maximum of temperature for the year, occurred July 1st, 

 and was ..... 96°. 



Minimum Jan. 22d, - - - -7°. 



Whole range of temperature, - - 103°. 



The whole quantity of water, in inches, which fell in rain, 

 hail and snow was 58.4 — 35.3 of which fell in the nighttime. 

 On the 19th, 20th and 21st of September, there fell eight 

 inches of rain. The whole quantity of snow and hail was 

 seventy-two inches, but as the weather was mild, and the 

 snow storms were usually succeeded by warm rains, there 

 were but a few days of good sleighing in Vermont, during 

 the winter. The greatest depth of snow upon the earth, at 

 any time, did not exceed twelve inches. The quanity of 

 water, in rain, hail and snow, which fell during the last year, 

 was two tenths of an inch more than that of the year pro- 

 ceeding ; and the temperature of the summer months was 

 two degress less ; but the comparative progress and maturi- 

 ty of vegetation in those years was truly surprising — In con- 

 sequence 1 of a mild and open winter, followed by a very 

 warm and dry spring, which was succeeded by swarms of 

 devouring insects, which destroyed much of the growth of 

 the summer of 1 826, a greater scarcity of provisions, both 

 for man, and beast, was experienced in some parts of Ver- 

 mont, than has occurred since the first settlement of the 

 State. But the last season was directly the reverse ; the 

 crops were never more abundant, nor in a finer state of ma- 

 turity. 



Fayetteville, May 1st, 1828. 



5. Postscript* to the Pluviometrical Observations of Dr. Dar- 

 lington, published at p. 29, of this volume. — Since the foregoing was 

 written, I have seen in the " Register of Pennsylvania" a state- 

 ment of the rain as it fell at, and near Philadelphia, for a number 

 of years past, — by which it appears, that the quantity was much 

 less than I have made it: so much less, indeed, that it would war- 

 rant a suspicion that there must be some inaccuracy in one, or 

 both, of the accounts. The statement in the " Register" makes 

 the average of the last five years only 36.30 inches ; whereas my 

 account gives an average of 47.46 inches. It is hardly probable 

 there could be that much difference in the quantity, in two places 

 so near each other (not exceeding twenty-five miles :) and yet I 

 am unable to account for the discrepancy. My rain guage was a 

 tin vessel, accurately made, six inches deep, and six inches square 



* Accidentally omitted in the last No. 



