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REMARKS. 
Notes. Eighth Mo. I9. Cirrns and circstratus clouds : 
rather windy. 20. Cumulostratus : windy. Cirrns clouds, 
very red, at sunset. 21. Windy. 22. Cloudy morning, small 
Tain : showers and wind : rainbow’ about G p. m. the sky richly 
coloured, and the clouds evaporating. 24. Cumulus during the 
day ; cirrus at sunset ^ twilight brilliant and coloured with traces of 
cirrocumulns and of stratus. ‘2.5. Overcast with cumulpstratus : 
twilight opake and coloured. 2G Windy a. m. Cumulostratus 
clouds, the remains of which, at sunset, glowed with a succes- 
sion of crimson and purple tints on a full orange ground. 27. 
Windy a. m. a little rain. 28. Overcast ; much wind, and at 
night, rain. 2tj. Cumulostratus clouds chiefly: a shower or 
two : the twilight luminous, but opake and surmounted by a 
blush of red considerably elevated. 30. a. m. Cloudy. 
Ninth Mo. I . (at Stratford.) Slight shower at evening, a. 
Very cloudy morning. .5. Heavy rain after 6 p. m. lunar halo. 
G. Rainy morning ; high wind. J. Much wind still : showery, 
(). Very fine moonlight night. 12. Abundance of cirrocu- 
mulus, gradually lowering, and arranged in close lines from 
S. E, to N. W. 14. A shower in the evening. 16. About 5 
p. m. a so/ar huh, of short continuance : the sky at sunset was 
(as usual of late) much coloured : there was a considerable 
diffused redness above the twilight, and some portions of the 
clouds, even against this, varied from the usual indigo colour to 
a pale olive green : an indistinct appearance of nimbus in the E. 
horizon. 
RESULTS. 
Provaili'.iij Winds Northerly, with an interruption of some days 
eontimiiuice from the southward, prrdueius: for the time a cousidcraWe 
depre.<.sion of the Barometer, together with elevation of the wean 
teiupenituro, ami rain. 
Barometer : greatest height 30’C9 in. ; least ^9’Q5 i». 
Mean of the period ,S0’O09 inches. 
Thermometer; trreate.st height 75"; lca.<£ 40"; 
Mean of tlie period, oS’-tU. 
Evaporation, ‘.”63 in. K-sin f-M in. 
The observations from the 30th of the eiudilh mouth to the cli.se of 
the period are ehiefly tliose of my friend John Gibson, at the Labora- 
tory, .Stratford. 
L. HOWARD. 
Totten H \m. 
Ninth ."ilonth, 1813. 
