50 J. F. Miller, Esq., on the 



at a distance of about 23°, and the diffused light in their vicinity 

 was slightly prismatic. A line drawn through the three luminous 

 discs was not parallel to the horizon, but slightly inclined upwards 

 towards the north. The northern parhelion had attached to it a 

 bush of light, 3° or 4° in length, which tended upwards, and evidently 

 formed a segment of a circle, which, if complete, would have had 

 the sun for its centre, whilst the southern parhelion had a similar 

 luminous appendage of about the same size, stretching downwards, 

 and which, doubtless, was another segment of the same circle. 

 Nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before the phenomenon en- 

 tirely disappeared. On the evening of the 26th, between 6 and 

 6.30 p.m., a similar, but much less perfect exhibition of parhelia 

 was noticed by the writer at Whitehaven. 



On the night of the 22d, about 10 p.m., when in the Obser- 

 vatory, my attention was directed to a singular white serpentine 

 cloud in the NNW., at an altitude of about 15°. The cloud was 

 luminous, and white as frosted silver. Between it and the horizon, 

 separated by blue sky, were two inky black cirrostrati in strong 

 contrast. The luminous cloud was visible about fifteen minutes. 

 The sky was generally clear, and, at midnight, it was perfectly 

 cloudless, but there was no trace of aurora or other visible cause for 

 the appearance, though it was probably of electric origin. 



June 16. A field of hay in cock near Workington; 28th, first 

 cast of bees ; 30th, met with glow-worms in Borrowdale. 



The temperature of the quarter ending June 30th, is l o, 40 below 

 the average. The deaths are 39 below the corrected average num- 

 ber, which is 124. 



July, — Temperature l o, 06 under the average. 



On the morning of the 4th, ice of the thickness of half-a-cro wn 

 was found on the glass of the hotbeds in Holm Rook gardens. The 

 potatoes in the neighbourhood were completely blackened by the 

 severity of the frost. Similar accounts have reached us from Ulver- 

 stone, and various places in this vicinity. 



Three solar halos were seen during the month. 



August. — Temperature o, 72 above the average of 18 years. 



Several bright meteors or falling stars were noticed ; one on the 

 evening of the 8th conveyed the impression of such extreme proximity 

 as to resemble a spark from a distant chimney. The grain har- 

 vest commenced in this neighbourhood on the 26th. Several fields 

 near Egremont, and one at Distington, are already cut. 



September. — A beautifully fine month ; very heavy dews at night. 

 Temperature 0°*63 under the average. On the 5th, the tempera- 

 ture fell 20°- 5 in 10 hours, and between the 24th and 25th at 3 

 p.m., 18° in 24 hours. During the nights of the 28th and 29th, a 

 naked thermometer on wool, exposed on a grass-plot, fell 21°-5 

 below the temperature of the air at 4 feet above the ground. The 

 terrestrial radiation is now at a maximum. 



