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FORWARDNESS OF THE SEASONS. 



of all the places thus corrected (with the exception of Johnston a, Montgomery, Onondaga, 

 and Millville, whose elevation above tide watei I could and no means of estimating) is 



lees than is due to their latitude and elevation, as c puted bj the foregoing laws, i>\ 



ii . it>. The coincidence is surprisinglj close, and this small difference may be accounted 

 foi l>\ the low temperature of several places that enter into the computation, depending 

 upon accidental circumstances, or by error in the assumed elevation of some of the places ; 

 or. which is not improbable, bj .-mall errors in the data from which the laws were 

 deduced. 1 



To indicate the forwardness of the seasons, I selected the following facts from a great 

 ■in it it mi of others published in the Regents' Reports, viz. the firsl appearance of robins in 

 the spring; the blooming of various trees and plants; the ripening of strawlienios ; the 

 commencement of haj and wheat harvest ; and the first killing frost of autumn. The 

 mean time of these for the whole Slate lor fifteen yearst ending with 1842, and also the 

 mean temperature ami mean annual extremes, is shown in the following table, winch 

 ma\ serve as a standard of reference in examining the same kind of facts in the different 

 sections of the State. In preparing this table, I noticed a few obvious errors in the records, 

 which I rejected. 





MEAN 



Number of 



Number of 





DATE. 



localities. 



observations 



March 19 



11 





Shadbuah in bloom . . . 



May 1 



48 



168 



do ... 



2 . 



57 



175 



inta do ... 



4 



58 



269 



Plum do ... 



6 



52 



264 



Cherry do ... 



7 



52 



250 



Apple do ... 



15 





374 



Lilac do ... 



15 



(5 



151 



■■erries ripe 



June 12 







larvest commenced, 



July 8 



34 



127 



Wheal harvest ditto . . . 



" 



45 



186 



First killing frost . . . 



Sept. 23 



57 



171 



Mean temperature .... 



Nov. 5 



59 



r>.-)f, 



577 



10°. 49 



Mean annir.il maximum, 



'.'2°. 00 



5i» 





Mean annua] minimum, 



12". 





551 



Mean annual ran:.'i .... 



1"I°.00 



59 





* At the Peach does not p 



row in the northe 



rn part of I 



ie Stabs, 



Ihii date must be considered a 



s the mean for the 



southern an 



d nuddlo 



paiu only, and ■• hence too e 



arlr aa compared 



with other 



trees. 



'If, the law in respect to latitude remaining unchanged, we should allow 1° of temperature for every 313 feet of 

 elevation, instead of 350 feet as I have assumed, the mean, calculated and observed temperatures would be precisely 

 (dike. 



tThe obai ■ :> i through a period of seventeen years, but I was unable t>i obtain the reports for I B26 



and . - 



