^06 Dr Richardson’s Remarlcs on the Climate anM 
Table VI . — Tabular View of the Phenomena marhing the 
Progress of Spring at Cumberland House. Lai, 58° 57^ 
Long. 102° ir PT. 
Means for the Month and 10 
days preceding the respective 
Phenomena. 
<p o 
Date. 
Mean Temp, 
of preceding 
month. 
Mean Temp, 
of preceding 
10 days. 
Means of 
Maxima for 
10 days. 
Means of Mi- 
nima for 10 
days. 
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Phenomena. 
1820. 
Mar. 8. 
The snow covering the ground to 
10. 
0 
+ 1.0 
+ 11.0 
0 
— 9.0 
+ 27° 
the depth of 3 feet, was first ob- 
served to moisten in the sun, the 
temperature in the shade having 
risen to + 27° Fahr. 
12. 
• •• 
• •• 
Temp, in the shade rose to 30°, and 
20. 
+ 18.0 
+ 27.6 
+ 7.6 
+ 39i 
the melting snow began to drop 
from the eaves of the houses. 
21. 
• •• 
• • • 
... 
The temp, this day rose in the shade 
22. 
to 40°, patches of earth became 
visible from the wasting of the 
snow, and the River Saskatchaw- 
an broke up partially. 
On the 22d the highest tempera- 
24. 
ture of the air was + 26°; but the 
surface of the snow, which was 
moist in the sun, was observed to 
assume a bluish hue, from myriads 
of minute hemipterous insects,- 
which made their way through 
it with great rapidity, and were, 
without injury to their vital pow- 
ers, frozen up with the snow af- 
ter sunset. 
A white-headed eagle seen. Temp. 
28. 
50°. 
Temp, in the shade 29°. Many 
31. 
+ 11.1 
+ 15.2 
+ 24.2 
+ 0.3 
+ 50 
grasses and bents C Carices) were 
observed shedding their seeds, 
which had withstood the winter 
firmly grasped in their glumes. 
This circumstance, and the sap 
still remaining in the culms, ren- 
ders the hay or grass of the 
swamps nutritious to cattle in 
the v/inter of these climates. 
April 2. 
• •• 
... 
The temperature sunk yesterday 
to — 14°, and did not rise to-day 
above + 20°. The River Sas- 
katchawan is again frozen up. 
