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70° ; the mists now began to flit on the hill sides. Wednesday the 

 1st of June was very sultry, the Thermometer in the house 80°, all 

 day sky cloudy, and the near atmosphere hazy to a degree. At 8 p. m. 

 the wind became a gale from the N. W., and brought with it a flood 

 of rain, which lasted for two hours with tremendous violence, excavat- 

 ing deep ravines in the hill side, and changing the shallow mountain 

 streams into deep and tumultuous torrents. The 2nd and 3rd were 

 cloudy without much wind, and a fine shower»of rain fell on each 

 day. Maximum of "Thermometer 75° in the house, wind veering 

 from S. W. to N. W., and round by N. to E. Saturday the 4th was 

 a very sultry, and hazy day, but from 9 p. m., the wind blew with 

 great violence from N. E. to S. E., lightning vivid, with constant loud 

 thunder, and rain fell in torrents. The weather cleared at 10 a. m. on 

 the 5th, and from that time till yesterday, the 15th, there only occur- 

 red at Almorah, (to which place my observations are strictly confin- 

 ed,) one smart shower on the afternoon of the 10th ; the sultry haze 

 returned with strong W. and S. W. winds, and the Thermometer 

 latterly attained to a height of from 77° to 81° in the house. At last, 

 yesterday the 15th, the heat seemed to have attained its climax. But 

 as the scud of clouds still continued to be blown strongly from the 

 West, I hardly expected rain, though the lightning was vivid from 

 heavy cumuli at the S. E. corner of the horizon. Between 8 and 

 10 p. m., however, the wind changed to N. W. and round' by N. and 

 N. E. to E. and S E., and at the latter hour the rains set in with a 

 vengeance. Thunder and lightning all night, with strong winds and 

 constant pouring of water from the heavens. To-day the rain is 

 steady, and the misty clouds are rolling about the hills, and into the 

 windows. Thermometer at noon in house 72°. My house is the lowest 

 in the station, and is about 5,260 feet above the sea. Common Baro- 

 meters with the usual scale of degrees, are of course of no use here. 



I see by the Delhi Gazette of the 11th, that on the 3rd instant 

 there was no storm at Bareilly, and that a heavy storm without rain 

 occurred at that place on Wednesday the 1st, and that the rainy 

 weather which we had up here was, from the appearance of the sky, 

 suspected. I also perceive, that the Bareilly correspondent of the 

 Delhi Gazette describes the height of the Thermometer on the 30th 

 ultimo as 96°, with tatties and punkahs ; so that even with our usual 



