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THE MEDITERRANEAN NATURALIST 
places where 
no influence 
to have been no greater on the shore ? tan those 
made by heavy storms at spring tides; but they of 
course shook the laud behind more than such 
storms do. It is impossible to say the t th'-.ve explo- 
sions had no effect in rendering the land more un- 
stable; but sufficient other causes for the landslip 
are apparent, and similar though smaller slips 
occurred along the coast in other 
these explosions could have had 
whatever. 
Another cause which may have partially assisted 
is the want of shingle, on the foreshore. A sea-wall 
with groyne's has been built on the east of Hythe; 
this largely stopped the eastward movement of 
Mstereological Report. 
Lat. 35’ 55' N. Long. 14° 29' E. 
Barometer Readings reduced to 32 F. at sea level. 
ST, IGNATIUS’ COLLEGE 
MALTA. 
February 1893. 
Results of t.bser rations taken J art no the men!/,. 
Mean Reading of Barometer 
Highest ,, „ on the 1st. 
Lowest „ ., on. the 22nd 
Range of Barometer Readings 
Highest Reading of Max: Therm; on the 25 :h 
Lowest Reading of Alin: Therm: on the Gth 
Range of. Thermometer Readings 
Greatest Range in 24 hours on the 1 5th . 
Mean of all the highest Readings 
Mean of all the lowest Readings ... 
Mean Daily Range 
Mean Temperature (deduced from Max: and Min.) 
Mean Temperature (deduced from Dry Bulb.) 
Adopted Mean Temperature 
Mean Temperature of Evaporation 
Mean Temperature of Dew point 
Mean Elastic force of Vanonr 
Mean Weight of Vapour in a cubic foot of air 
Mean additional weight required for saturation 
Mean degree of Humidity 
Mean Weight of a cubic foot of air 
Fall of Rain 
Number of days on which Rain fell 
Mean amount of Cloud (an overcast skv = 10) 
Total number of miles of Wind indicated .. 
Mean Velocity of Wind per hour. . 
E 
Dew Point: ranged between 32’7° on the 8th anc 
In Sunshine: the highest, reading was 122T 0 on th > 2<>t h 
On Ground: the lowest reading was 36'3° on the sili. 
Lightning was seen on tlm 4th. and 23rd. 
Total Rainfall since last June 23 '1 54 inches : the average of 10 years, l(i'8S2 
1st, March 1893, (Signed) Jame 
shingle, and the sea-front of .Sard gate suffered. 
New groynes have, however, now been built here 
and the shingle is again accumulating. If the 
want of shingle were the real cause of the dip 
its effect ought to have been felt some time back 
in wet weather. The want of su; port to the 're- 
shore may possibly have had some effect in deter- 
mining the exact time of the slip, when the ground 
became fully saturated, for the first important dip. 
occurred at 7 p.ir. on Saturday. March 4th. at low 
spring tides; the ground moved slightly during the 
night, and a second slip took place at low tide the 
next morning. 
E M ARKS 
! 54'7° on the 2Sth. 
Average 
1 ' years 
inches 
30-096 
: c 
>5 
30'366 
30320 
5) 
29 713 
29623 
0653 
0697 
08 9° 
671° 
41 "7° 
41-7° 
25'4 
1 S"0° 
196° 
61-2° 
60- r 
49-1° 
48-9° 
12-l c 
11.2° 
54-r 
53'5° 
54-r 
53-8° 
541° 
53‘7° 
49’5 0 
49 5° 
465° 
46-6° 
inches 
0317 
0319 
grains 
36 
3-0 
,, 
0’9 
0-8 
81 
82 
grains 
542‘2 
5408 
inches 
1-768' 
2-087 
i 
10 
41 
47 
7817 
7675 
miles 
11 "5 
113 
inches. 
5 Socles, S.J. 
