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bunc in a sitting-room at 120 feet above the level of the sea ; it is graduated from 
a died point, and the mercury is enclosed in a kid cup. 
Two thermometers, self-registering for night, aie hung 6 feet from the ground on 
the siiie of the house exposed to a N.E. direction, hut protected from the N.W. 
••nils by a dump of trees at a few yards distance; another registering thermometer 
• placed upon the ground and exposed to the full action of the atmosphere, and 
i! ' difference in its readings at night from the other thermometers placed on the 
i iu« was shown in a Table. 
Hu rain is measured by a 12-inch diameter funnel-shaped tin pipe, where 1 inch 
' ttie funnel reads as 9 inches of the float-rod ; the snow is received into a pail of 
depth and 8 inches in diameter, suspended by a double ling like a ship’s 
; '«( | w 1 so that no snow-drift falls into it. and the melted snow is measured in the 
-gauge. 
Ik'force of the wind has been measured during 1852, to a certain extent, by a 
'Jchinc haying a board of 1 foot (made to face the direct action of the wind) 
against aspring which marked the force in pounds of pressure. The clear- 
»ky. velocity of clouds, aad also the direction of the different currents, 
V Iran observations made with the naked eye at different times in the day. Other 
"spheric phenomena have been recorded where it was thought that they might 
10 Elucidating changes or modifications in the climate, 
ur winter begins by the temperature on the 27th November, and continues 120 
"r/ or “Early one-third of the whole year. The mean temperature of the season 
I dd the montbs of December, January, and February, but for the whole 
'"i*tkn l T eau ten »perature is 22°-<)15. The hottest day during the ten years 
lt j * ( h January 1843, when the thermometer did not fall below 42° at night 
the da V» or a racan of 88°-a. The coldest day was the 19th 
nil j W lCn ‘he thermometer at night marked — 1 5° and did not rise above 
The ,n?’,° r V liean of “I l°-5 ; greatest cold -22° on 7th January 1851. 
titan,. - r ,‘ of the barometer is 29-6903 ins-, being ’0497 in. below that of 
Win • on llie col umu is greatest in this sensou ; the highest, 30-757 ins., 
f - February 1849, and the lowest, 28-410 ins., on 31st December 1848. 
■njy range ,8 2-125 ins. 
II TUif-rlv*™?, T ail from soul h to west and west to north during December, while 
N.L ;, r ;!T P reva >l 'n January and February. Upon the mornings of greatest 
thp winJ generally blows from tho S.S.W. The average 
1 r - It on!??* *? 8now ' is 11 ‘ 52 «2 ins.; of which nearly A ins. fa I m Decem- 
‘-Vctiv a ed four timea during the ten recorded winters, whilst there is 
'Vhia thp frr'! ,)asse . a hut there is lightning or thunder once. . 
' '- ‘’'host wi»? s . et V n lt generally conlinues steady for a length of time* T 
J J * n chig* with a breuk from 3rd December 1848 to 22nd March 1849, or 
’ ^ Trom 24tl v the **°eption of a rain storm on the 12th February, there was 
lro -t OTilrao i VCmb . er 1851 lmlil tl,p 21st April 1852,or 142 days. The shortest 
1 ’ ,:u ro of thi'fln m , 8UCcca9 i°n in the winter of 1844-45. During the con- 
'- ; vUii 0tl , f ‘ ros,s the ground is generally covered with snow, so that the 
' : " r h enable thftf * ° f tlle S 1 * 88 ** do not suffer, and good roads are made uponi t 
^rely (i».. mer anil lumberer to enrrv their produce easily to market. iog 
. —*«y seen. n, ' —*'* lumberer to carry their produce easily l- 
r M J‘ which wnrt atraoa Phere is generally dry and bracing, and there are >u 
_ '; J . and aro i c ^ t ,non ar « unable to work out of doors ; people expect it to be 
*7/ 'bier the dad in woollens; and it is remarked that the more steady 
,l ' Cr ^>ionallv n JT 1S ’ , more healthv nre the inhabitants. , 
of an \ n 'u ^aw win uncase the trees, fcc., sometimes nearly to the 
; weight hm\ and thon the fruit trees are apt to have their branches broken 
v- «u graconf, * 19 a n,a gnificent sight to see the forest or even a single tree 
Ll I . curve « beneath its crystal load, anil reflecting the rays of the 
"n every n • ■ IJ '-‘nea 
V 1 *. from the ir.*!, ? ,t l 1 ad ‘he prismatic hues of the rainbow, 
a to tbe 318t December 1843. . . f . n 
y .~' xt .v-six dnv« °i n t le 2 " March according to the temperature; its 
i; .. mean n f ’• dunn S which the medium temperature is elevated from 
12 i the S Un °ff tb ? u °rmal season is 37 °' 44 , but for the sixty-six days it » 
“ cftctln 8 by his approach an advance of ll^-lOS upon the mean 
The sun was not 
i ration 
32° to 
