
TABLE Il. 
The greateft daily variation of heat and cold in the atmofphere from the 2oth of December, 1783, to the 
8th of January, 1784, taken from three different ftations, and compared togethers One thermometer 
placed on a tower in Canterbury, 220 feet from the ground; another on a hill, a mile diftant, but on 
the fame level with that on the tower; athird in agarden, about fix feet from the ground. N.B. The 
nocturnal degrees of cold belong to the night immediately preceding the day to the date of which 
they are placed. 

Greateft degree of cold in the night 
Greateft degree ot heat in thie day. 
















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"Dec. = 5 éi ie 5 > Evening preceding clear; morning clear; 
20] 20 25 252 | —5 - 53 395 —of | wind brifk at W.; cloudy at noon ; air very| 
; moitt; barometer at 29.9. 
Morning clear on the hill; fog in the city; 
21] 292 gos | 32 =—1 —2} 373 38 38 —o3 | - o} little wind at N.W.; air moift: cloudy at 
U noon ; alittlefnow ; bar. 29.8. 
(Morning flight fog in the city; little wind 
22|. 22 244 | 25% | —2i | —33 34 34¢ | 36 —0}| —2 at N.W.; air moift; cloudy at noon; ai 
‘ little fhow; bar. 29.7. 
5 ary a 3 I Fes leer x | f Dark and cloudy allday; wind brifk at S.W. 5 
23) 313 | 34 | 32 o8 39% | 40% | 372 92 || $24 { air moift; evening foggy; bar. 29.8. | 
a4 a3 1 3 1 |J Morfing rainy; clear at noou; cloudy late in 
24, 312 | 33 342 | -15 25 43a | 42 41g | T14 | +22 the evening; wind at N.; bar. 29.6. 
- Morning cloudy; wet mift; wind brifk atE., 
25| 26 27 = aaigetd| Peco 36 355 | — +o; | — towards evening rain mixed with fnow; 
E; nighf clear; bar. 29.2, 
Morniig foggy, a little fhow about noon; 
26} 262 265} 28 —— | —1F 33% 34 36 —0o} | —25 evenifg clear in the zenith; little wind at 
N.; bar. 28.9. 
E Morning clear; cloudy at noon; little fnow 
27| 25 264] 28 | —13 | —3 36 342 | 352 | +14 | —o% { in the evening; moderate breeze of windat 
N.E.3; bar. 29.3. 
2 z al x | _51 | { Morning dark andcloudy; wind very brifc at 
28] 30 29 203 | +1 +07 334 | 30 332 | +Ts 5 11 NEL; air dry, and felt very cold; bar. 29.3. 
Morning hezy; dry mifty air; wind very 
3 5 ay a 3 y 
29) 21 21k | o2 | —ok } —3 24% | 245 Os { cold and brifk at S.E. by E.; bar, 29.7- 
Morning clear in the zenith; dry mifty fo 
30) 153 15 163 +o | -1 22 ait 21F | +03 | +0} below; wind yery cold and brifk at S.E. 
U bar. 29.7. 
(Sometimes clear, fometimes cloudy; wind 
3i} 123 113 13 +of | —o2 arr} — 21% | —— | — [4 britk at S.E.; evening Tain with {now ; 
wind S, very high in the night; bar. 29.4. 
Jan. Wet mift all day; wind mod 
n , a iy; Wind moderate at W.; 
1| 20 _— 20 | ——| — 34 =m 332 | ss | 102 { bar, 29.44 4 
j Morning thick fog and mifly rains wind S.E.; 
2| 324 32 32t | tof | —— 40 393 40 +o | —— |4 afternoon and evening very high at S.W. 
° C with rain; bar. 29.6. 
Morning rainy; wind S.W. by W.; clear at 
6 acl 6 +0 —— 453 45 453 | +of } —— { noon$ afternoon and eveniny very clear and 
Ad 8 Nad 3 Ws 4 fill; wind S.W.; bar. 29.6. 
Morning mifty rain;. wind high at S.; even- 
4| 32 354 | 37% | —33 | —5% 465 | 443 | 453 | +13 | +1 { ing very clear and fill; bar. 29.8. : 
Morning very clear; little wind at N.E. even- 
5}. 263 293 3I =3 45 363 352 | — +1 { ing veryclear and ftill; bar. 30.1. 
Morning very clear; moderate breeze o 
6) 213 | 26 27%} —4i | —6 31 303 | — | +03 | —— { ae at SE.; evening very clear and ftill; 
ar. 30.26 
; ¢ Morning yery clear; cloudy about noon ; 
7) 16 19 205 | -3 —4t 29 27k agi | +13 | +13 evening dark and cloudy; little wind at 
| S.E,; bar. 50.0. 
Morning dark and clofe; very dark all day; 
8} 26 255 | 252 | +03 | +o} 32 32 BIE | == | Ok { wind W.N.W.;, bar. 29.8. : 

