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In the evening two paraselenes also appeared from nine till after ten 

 o'clock, without the bounding edge of a large lunar halo; their distance 

 from the moon's centre was 24£ degrees, each being about two degrees, 

 from the interior, and three quarters of a degree from the exterior edge of 

 the halo : they exhibited a faint red tinge, underwent the same changes 

 of figure as the parhelia in the afternoon, and had white vaporous trains ten 

 degrees long. These were the best defined paraselenes that we have seen 

 for many years past. 



The afternoon of the 25th was sultry, when thunder clouds passed over 

 from the S.E., and very vivid sheet and forked lightning emanated from 

 the clouds in every quarter from sunset till after midnight, which ter- 

 minated in light rain here, but heavy in other places, particularly in Bath 

 and its neighbourhood, where the rain is said to have come down in such 

 torrents, that it raised the Avon to an overflow in two hours, and for 

 a time gave the streets the appearance of rivers of water. The vivid and 

 momentary flashes of lightning and loud peals of thunder are described as 

 having been awfully grand, and the storm tremendous and appalling from 

 8 till nearly 10 o'clock. By this storm great damage has been sustained 

 by the heavy rains, and consequently floods, which spoiled and carried 

 off much of the out-lying hay in different counties; and several lives were 

 lost by means of the electric fluid. It appears to have taken its course 

 through Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Coventry, 

 Staffordshire, Derbyshire, &c, and it extended to the neighbourhood of 

 London. 



The atmospheric and meteoric phenomena that have come within our 

 observations this month, are three parhelia, two paraselenae, one solar and 

 two lunar halos ; and ten gales of wind, namely, two from the North, 

 three from the South-west, three from the West, and two from the North- 

 west. 



REMARKS. 



London. — June 1, 2. Fine. 3. Fine in the morning : heavy rain. 4. Cloudy; 

 strong wind. 5, 6. Fine. 7. Rainy. 8. Cloudy. 9. Stormy and wet. 

 10. Cold, cloudy, with frequent showers. 1 1. Rain in the morning ; cloudy. 

 12, 13. Showery, with some hail. 14. Heavy showers. 15. Fine; rain at 

 night. 16, 17. Cloudy; rain at nights. 18 — 20. Fine. 21. Fine in the 

 morning : rain. 22. Rain in the morning : clear and cold at night. 23, 24. 

 Very fine and warm. 25. Rainy in the morning: cloudy : thunder at night. 

 26. Fine. 27 — 29. Fine, with brisk wind. 30. Very fine. 



Penzance. — June 1. Clear. 2. Fair: misty rain. 3. Rain. 4. Clear. 

 5. Clear : a shower. 6. Fair : rain. 7 — 10. Clear. 1 1. Fair. 12. Rain : fair. 

 13, 14. Fair: clear. 15. Clear: a shower. 16. Showers: fair. 17. Clear. 

 18. Fair. 19. Clear. 20. Fair : rain. 21. Rain. 22. Fair : clear. 23. Fair. 

 24. Rain. 25. Misty rain. 26. Fair. 27. Fair: rain. 28. Fair: showers. 

 29. Clear. 30. Fair. 



Boston. — June 1. Cloudy. 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy : rain p.m. 4. Cloudy. 

 5. Fine. 6. Fine : rain r.M. 7. Rain. 8. Cloudy. 9, 10. Rain. 11. Fine. 

 12. Fine: rain early a.m. 13. Cloudy. 14. Cloudy: showers during the 

 day, with thunder and lightning. 15. Cloudy: rain a.m. and again at night. 

 16. Cloudy: rain at night. 17, 18. Cloudy. 19. Cloudy: rain early a.m. : 

 rain and hail with tremendous thunder and lightning 1 p.m. 20, 21. Cloudy. 

 22. Cloudy: rain p.m. 23, 24. Fine. 25. Cloudy. 26. Cloudy : rain with 

 thunder and lightning early a.m. 27. Fine : rain p.m ; with thunder and 

 lightning. 28. Cloudy: rain p.m. 29, 30. Fine. 



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