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Statistics of Tasmania. [ 1838 — 1841 . 
following year they were only in the proportion of 4-| per 
cent. The fever appears from the table to have raged with 
greater violence in Hobart than in any of the other districts. 
A comparative account of the rate of wages during the 
last three years was furnished to me by one possessing 
more accurate information on this point than, perhaps, any 
other person in the Colony; though these rates exhibit 
a slight decrease from 1839 to 1841: yet I would observe 
that many of them have still further fallen during the 
last year, owing to the increased number of mechanics 
now resident in this Island. 
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Abstract of Tables kept by W. Wyatt, Esq. y showing the 
Highest , Lowest , and Mean Temperature , <^c., in 
Adelaide , South Australia , for the Year ending 31 si 
October , 1842. 
MONTHS. 
/ 
Highest 
Temp. 
Lowest 
Temp . 
Mean 
Temp. 
Noon. 
WINDS. 
Hot. 
Warm . 
Cool . 
November .. 
85 
99 
82 
58 
05 
59 
78 
15 
25 
December .. 
90 
102 
89 
00 
08 
05 
85 
3 
15 
23 
January.... 
80 
97 
78 
07 
75 
09 
84 
.. 
8 
27 
February. ,. 
82 
100 
87 
75 
72 
55 
87 
2 
8 
27 
March. 
84 
99 
82 
01 
64 
02 
81 
12 
29 
April. 
70 
80 
GO 
62 
03 
50 
70 
* , 
12 
15 
May.. 
07 
81 
08 
54 
00 
53 
00 
14 
17 
June. 
59 
73 
58 
54 
54 
54 
63 
24 
8 
July. 
59 
70 
02 
54 
58 
50 
61 
23 
13 
August. 
08 
77 
67 
45 
51 
43 
01 
18 
21 
September.. 
09 
84 
71 
50 
52 
51 
00 
22 
15 
October .... 
85 
90 
82 
95 
61 
57 
73 
•• 
14 
22 
