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REPORT—1854. 
temperature of the winter. The temperature increases very regularly about 10 * 
each month from l'ebruary to June, contrary to the sudden starts to which it n 
Bubject in Britain. The easterly winds prevail in April and May, which keeps the 
weather cold, and sometimes a foot of snow falls; but in general there are fewer 
days of rain, and less falls in April than in any other month. 
n '.shts are frosty ; the mean temperature at night in April bnn« 
27 ‘037, while May is as low as 37 0, 63; this greatly retards vegetation, Rllhourh 
the sun has great, power; the average heut in the daytime in April Being 40 ■-• 4 ,and 
ID i ^ 28 , i‘ on *he 1st April, the thermometer marked 3° below, 
and on the 2 nd 2 “ beluw zero; this very unnsual degree of cold was followed by» 
fading 1 m * ,nC weft ther w *th northerly winds, and very little snow ur nuo 
can height of the barometer for the normal spring is 297067 ini., being 
J104 inch above the winter. The extreme elevations and depressions of the colun.ii 
go o in great measure during the season, and by the end of spring the rasp- u 
con racted to about 14 inch. Mean range of the season TCtiS inch. 
the wind is easterly for one third of the time, which is in a great measure dm i.r 
to the large bodies c.f floating ice off in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; ao that altheurfi 
the westerly winds blow generally during the nights mid early in the morning, 5 * 
i is almost sure to shift round towards tiie N.E. us soon as the nun raises the t.m- 
perature, or about ten o’cloek in the morning. 
6 avcra 8 t ‘ r »;n is 9’94J9 ins. ; the showers nre generally heavy and not of l"rt 
continuance, while tho evaporation is excessive; so that in a few hours altcrwarb 
inc ana is in 30 ml order for the farmer to proceed in sowing his crops, 
tin-o JslV bcg,ns on 1st of June and lasts for 116-day* according to the tempo*- 
} u ^^ temperature of 6°- 187, the whole 117 day* being above 62' i t- 
tho 118 P t ™‘ 0n tho northern hemisphere an ndvunce of 18°'7& u I’ lV 
(iT-W ® ,n P erft hi r u o| the spring. The temperature of the normal summer •» 
700.5 * . . ,nc(l,Ur " pf the twenty-four horns rises during tho season from j- 
The rnpn 11 * ^ arns , *S ai " lj y the close to the former level on the 24th Septem r - 
the temb nr , , 1L ’ ralUre ? f , Ju ’y ^ August do not differ from each other more b* 
one mnmi na w ^ or ^ our years out of the ten there was a slight ln»’ 
are four ftJ? ■ moa th of July as Well ns August, while upon an avcrng>' Ir - 
frost in pvor 8 ' V n,g 1 hf8 *^ une au <l five in September, bo that frequently the 
»roat m every month of the year. 
•Oll^inph^K ^ lcig L t of t,lp barometer for the normal summer is 20 - 718 Oini.. ,r 
oi l 3 inch above the vernal mean. 
whilehern 8 ;? is l '°T in. In England the least range is in the mouth 0 
Of an : nr t, t .? xc f L ‘‘ lB tljt ‘ mean range of both June and August by nearly one- 
this »cLon ari e rL ea,t bein « l '° 03 *"■ in June. The predominating ^ 
durimrThP f ! ' 0Uth to WCBt ! hut still nne-tliird of the time the wind b '° 
than a lnil ZL™*' ^ t0 cn8t or fr ™ east to soulh ; but (hi* cannot l* * 
irk in get^aulw^t^r * 9 * hoW " by ^ 
the T year mean ins- leas falling in June than in any other tuoo^ 
the^niea'n'tprnn'” 8 »° n ^ 251,1 °f September, and lasta onlv sixty-three days 01 
15 4 S 43 Tpi" i^ fi * R *e* in helow 32°. 'Hie mean temperature of 
perature of i* the nmntha of summer, but the «*•* , '** 
P Tho ° , e . 81 . xt >’-three day* la 43°-04. , • ,,be 
highest avera^p* d/ ° f ^ l, aronn.ter for the normal autumn is 297-10 ins -» lC - 
The wruKli7 gh .° Ut Xh * >^ the extreme range 2 ’ 1 02 in*. . w 
north. ^° r two-thirds of this season from south to west an 
as ^ar^Mnt?^!' 1 ! ° f V*'" is l3 ' 52G ‘ *"»•> October being ourwetW*^ 
is a good deal of tine aS * s,l °wers arc heavy and not of long confirm*®* ^ . 
the mid of October cir P | iaBflnt - ' vcat,lcr at ** of 1 < be >' ear ' par ," C o « 
right of clear sunnr 3 eS,nUl u g uf N «vember, when there are ten days or^ 
. 1 .°.. ... f . a r Bunn y da vs With the tcmnprMnro r n *hnr „Wp the mean, 
mght of clear sunny days «. h thl r ayvmwr ’ KDe P iae v iU 
*hort period is usually called %nJSSSS t f mt 
