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Dr liichardson's Remarks on the Climate and 
Table X. — Continued, 
Mean Temperatures, 
1 
Date. 
Of preced- 
ing Month. 
Of 10 pre- 
ceding 
Days. 
Of maxi- 
mum for 
10 days. 
Of mini- 
mum for 
10 Days. 
Highest ten 
rature wit] 
10 Days. 
Phenomena. 
182D 
0 
0 
May 10. 
4-31.75 
4- 42.90 
4-20.40 
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Two gulls seen. Berries of the 
Vaccinium Vitis Idcea^ Empetrum 
nigrum^ and Arbutus alpina may 
now be gathered abundantly, ha- 
ving withstood the winter. The 
berries of the Vaccinium uligino- 
sum are also very fine in flavour 
at present, but so ripe and ten- 
der, that they can scarcely be 
plucked without crushingbeneath 
the finger. The ground is still 
frozen, but the snow thaws rapid- 
ly in the sunshine. Many of the 
Musci are beginning to sprout, 
and the calyptrce of some Junger- 
mannioB are already visible. 
11. 
... 
... 
Loons {Colymhus glacialis) arrived. 
17. 
... 
Teals {Anas crecca) killed. Their 
crops were filled with insects 
Avhich now swarm in the small 
rivers. 
20. 
w 
4- 26.55 
4-37.20 
4- 15.90 
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The weather for ten days past has 
been disagreeably cold and blow- 
ing, but the arrival of the sum- 
mer birds shews, that the fine 
Aveather has set in to the south- 
ward ; and we were informed by 
the natives, that, on the northern 
shores of Great SlaA^e Lake, only 
2|" to the south Avard, the snow 
Avas quite gone before the 10th 
of the month. A difference of 
nearly 10 days in the progress of 
spring Aras noticed in the folloAV- 
ing month, on advancing only 30 
miles to the northward. The 
cold Aveather experienced at this 
period at Fort Enterprize, arose 
from northerly Avinds, caused, I 
suppose, by the heating of the 
earth, and consequently of the 
atmosphere to the southAvard. 
This cause of northerly Avinds 
terminated this year about the 
20th of June, by the ground to 
the northward being cleared of 
snow, and getting rapidly heated. 
Up to this date, there Avas no ex- 
ternal appearance of vegetation 
amongst the phenogamous plants 
except the gradual evolution of 
the AvilloAv catkins. 
