204 
Mr. Read’s Meteorological Journal 
Days. ^ 
Ninels. jBarom. Ther. 
Sparks. 
Pof. Neg. | 
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1 
Dec. 4 
5 
S 
sw 
30.10 ! 
3 °- 3 8 
43 
52 
0 
0 
- 
| Weak figns; halls not open. 
6 
sw 
30.4° 
48 
0 
No figns of electricity. The third 
failure. A very moiftair. 
7 
sw 
3°-49 
42 
0 
pof.| 
A.M. a flight fog. 
8 
sw 
3 °-S 4 
40 
fmall 
pof. 
1 
P.M. 
9 
sw 
30-55 
34 
O 1 
pof. ! 
A.M. 
10 
w 
30.52 
39 
° 1 
— 
Weak figns ; balls not open. 
1 1 
sw 
3°-54 
42 
O 
pof. 
— 
| A.M. and P.M. The weather ferene 
12 
sw 
30.41V 
44 
0 
pof. 
— 
1 and fair. 
*3 
sw 
3 ° - 3 ° 
47 
0 
— 
— 
Weak figns. 
*4 
s 
29 92 
44 
0 
— 
neg. 
A.M. from a little rain. 
sw 
28.95 
45 
O 
— 
— 
No figns of eleCtricity. The fourth 
day’s failure. 
16 
sw 
29.4O 
40 
flrong 
pof. 
— 
P.M. a fliort ftiower of fnow, by which 
the rod was flrongly eleCtrified. 
J 7 
w 
29-15 
3 8 
O 
— 
— 
No figns of eleCtricity. The fifth day’s 
failure. 
18 
w 
3 °- 
5 ° 
fmall 
pof. , 
— 
A.M. a fine ferene morning. 
19 
sw 
29.58 
44 
O 
1 
neg. 
P.M. by a fmall rain. On an increafe 
of the fall of rain, the eleCtricity 
changed to pofitive. 
20: 
sw 
29.72 
44 
O 
— 
— 
Weak figns. 
21 
sw 
29.78 
45 
O 
— 
— 
No figns of eleCtricity. The fixth day’s 
/ 
failure, A very damp air. 
22 
sw 
29.60 
56 
O 
— 
— 
No figns. The feventh day’s failure. 
A moift air. 
2 3 
w 
29.78 
49 
O 
— 
— 
Weak figns of eleCtricity. 
24 
w 
29.27 
52 
fmall 
— 
neg. 
At eight o’clock, A.M. began a fmall 
fliower of rain, which was weakly 
eleCtrified negatively; as the fall of rain 
increafed, fo did the intenlity of the 
eleCtric fluid increafe with it, and after 
continuing for two hours, they both 
difappeared together. 
25 
; sw 
2941 
42 
flrong 
— 
neg. 
A.M. by a fliower of rain. Ten o’clock 
P.M, a fog flrongly eleCtrified pofitive. 
26 
1 w 
29.89 
46 
fmall 
pof. 
— 
A.M. 
27 
sw 
29.8O 
46 
0 
— 
■ — 
Weak figns. 
28 
1 w 
29.88 
47 
0 
pof. 
— 
P.M. from a very thin fog. 
2 C 
> sw 
29*75 
54 
O 
— 
— 
1 Only weak figns of eleCtricity. 
3 C 
) sw 
29 76 
42 
0 
— 
— 
3 1 
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29-73 
48 
0 
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