198 METEOROLOGICAL ABSfRACt. 



1798. 

 REMARKS. 



The climate of this part of our Ifland hardly admits of a finer feafon than that of 

 1798. The winter, though not altogether without froft, was on the whole mild 

 and open. In March, indeed, the temperature was rather below the mean; but 

 in April it rofe confiderably above it, and continued fo till the end of Oftober. 



It is remarkable of this year, that the temperature changed much more regu- 

 larly than ufual, increafing gradually till the end of June, and diminifliing in the 

 fame manner till the end of December, without any confiderable retrogradation. 

 The mean temperature is more than i°.5 above that of an ordinary year ; and this 

 difference fell chiefly on the fummer months. The mean temperature of June, 

 July and Auguft, was 61 ° ; the thermometer was often above 70, and never fo low 

 as 49 degrees. The vegetating feafon, reckoned from the 20th of March to the 

 aoth of October, has for its mean temperature 56°.i7, confiderably above the 

 mean of an ordinary year •, and, as along with this the rains fell feafonably, the crops 

 of all kinds were very abundant. The fine weather of this year extended over the 

 whole of Britain, and indeed over the greateft part of Europe. 



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