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Notes. — Ninth Mo. I9, 20. Breezes by day: much dew. 2!. 
Cloudy quite to sunset : a few drops of rain. 22. A breeze a. 
m. bringing clouds : p. m. a sudden shower : rain in the night. 
2.2. Windy; showers. 24. Much wind. 25. Windy ; cloudy. 
2(j. Overcast a. m. clear p. ni. ; a luminous twilight, with cir- 
rus and cirrocumuius. 27. Morning twilight somewhat co- 
loured : forenoon overcast : clear p. m. and at sunset fascicular 
cirri, arranged from W. to E. the wind E. nearly calm : after 
these appearances, lightning, far to the S. E. and S. W. 28. 
Cloudy with a few drops. 30. A pink tw'ilight, with dense 
coloured cirri. Eor three days past a steady N. £. breeze, with 
pretty much sunshine. 
Tenth Mo. 1. Overcast a. m. wind N. After sunset cirrocu- 
muius passing to cirrostratus ; a corona round the moon, and a 
small meteor which went W, 2. Overcast most of the day ; a 
few drops p. m. 3. Cirrus with cumulostratus : twilight opa- 
que and orange coloured : the roads have become of late exces- 
sively dry, and the dust raised from them floats in great quantity 
in the air. 4. Early this morning began a steady rain, which 
continued till after sunset. 5. Fine day : lunar Italo. O'. Cloudy. 
7. A considerable storm of thunder and lightning early this 
morning, followed by much rain. 8. Fair, a. m. wet, p. m. 9. 
Fine day. 10. Wet, with a fair interval. 11. Wet a. m. fair 
p. ni. 12. The reverse of yesterday. 14. Fair. 15. Very wet. 
RESULTS. 
Prevailin'? Winds F.asterly and drying, to tlie first quarter of the 
Moon ; soon after wliieh tircy became W esterly and brought nineh 
rain. 
narometer : greatest height ;W'.2 in. ; least 28‘23 iB. 
Mean of the period 29-752 inehes. 
Thennonieter : greatest heiglU 7i" ; least .53®; 
Mean of the period, jl-Sd®. 
Evaporation, i-19 in. Kain :V95 in. 
The rain of the 4th instant liavin:? put the conclusion to a fair season 
of some weeks conlinnaiice, I availed myself of the opportunity of a 
journey made immediately after it to ascertain, as far as I could, its 
extent. 
I found that it had rained from morning to night on that day all the 
w ay between London and Yoik ; also (by information from other tra- 
veliers) as far North as the Tyne, and over the narrow p-art of the 
island from (Cheshire to Northumberland, it having been likewise a 
very wet day on the South eoast; I conclude that probably the whole of 
Fhiglaud was on this occasion irrigated at once, from an Atlantic cur- 
rent, which, during the |»revalence of the Easterly breeze just before, 
had taken possession of tlte higher atmosphere ; and which on that day 
arrived, in its progress of subsidence, near enou>,li to the earth to part 
with its electrieitv, and displace the lower stream of air. 
L. HOWARD. 
Tottenham, 
Tenth Month, 1813. 
