Ch6 1 
TvlETEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
From the 24th of Nov. to the 2Ath Dec. Fan?' Miles N.N.W. Si, Faul*^, 
Kighfst, SO-05. 
Lowest) 28’39. 
Baromtter. 
Nov. 20. 
Dec. 9~ 
Greatest 
satiation in 
24 hours. 
Wind N.W. 
-- s. 
On che 16th, 
J the mercury was 
dredthsof and on the 
an men. 
no 
hun- 
i 
17ch, 29.5. 
Thermometer* 
Highest, 
Lowest, 52® Dec. 8, and 20. - 
S. and W. 
Greatest n 
variation in C 
24 hours. J 
8®. 
} 
At 7 in the morning 
on the 6th, the ther¬ 
mometer at 22°, and 
the following morning 
at 46°. 
The quantity of rain fallen in the course of the month is equal to o\ inches in depth. 
The average height of the barometer for the whole month, is equal to 29.529 : and the 
mean temperature for the same period nearly 41^*, a circumstance that will account for the 
trontinuance of vegetation. It was observed some years since, unde.r the article Public 
Societies, that so long as the medium temperature was 40° and upwards, so long w'ould the 
grass in the fields, and the vegetables in the gardens, proceed in their growth, hence the 
beauty of the surrounding verdure at the moment of writing this report. On the .5th and 
6th the frost was very severe, but It scarcely lasted 30 hours. At ten o’clock in the even¬ 
ing of the former, and at six in the morning of the latter of the above-named days, the 
snercury was as low as 22^^, Or full ten degrees below the freezing point. On the 12th and 
again on the l^h there were slight frosts. On the 27th, the mercury was at 27°, but it 
rose again rapidly, and on the following morning it was 40*^. There have been thirteen 
days-'in which there has been rain or snow : eight days have been uncommonly brilliant, and 
the others may be reckoned fair or dull ; on some, though not on many, tile fogs have pre- 
Tailed. The wind has blown chiefly from the w’esterly quarters. 
In the evening of the 7th of Nov. about half past eight, a splendid meteor illumined 
tbe whole metropolis, and it appeared above the loose clouds, and passed over an 
amplitude cf 60 degrees, in about 1.5 or 20 seconds, a space of time much too short for aify 
accurate observations to be made on it. Its greatest altitude was estimated at 20 degrees, 
aiid it disappeared in the N.N E. part of the horizon. Its diameter was said to be about the 
sixth part of a degree : its mass appeared compact, its light dense, and the colour was bluish 
resembling that which is produced by the combustion of Roman candles. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
JVe tharjjk Y. for his ohservalions. . 
It appears that, in Scotland, the Ww salaries of SekooUmasters are merely premiums 
to induce settlement, aoid that every child is paid for separately. 
Our next Supplement, ichich will be ready about the SOtk of January, will he rich 
in interest; but, us Country Booksellers are sometimes unaware of the period of its 
publication, we request that our Subscribers will remind them of its expected appear^ 
once. Including the two Supplements, the vast body of information contained in the 
Tilonthly Magazines, costs but 28 s. per annum, an expence irhicli we trust all our 
readers deem inconsiderable when contrasted with ttie value and variety (f its contents* 
Mr. Neild, of Preston, requests us to reprint the last. Paragraph of the Letter 
which we copied from the Westmoreland Paper, asjolluws : 
*'Jf we divide the number of yards which the hill is high, by the number of degrees 
which the thermometer sinks, we shall have the number of yards for each degree of the 
height of Skidclaw, 
thermometrical depression, viz. y30~15“62, so that there will be 62 yards of elevation, for 
every degree that che thermometer sinks. When the Mercury in the barometer falls an 
inch by-ascending an hill, we may calculate nearly 1000 feet j and, when the thermometer 
sinks a degree, we may reckon 186 feet of elevation. 
Errata.— In the present Number, page 523, line 4, of the address, for “ and^‘* read 
or." —Page .544, first line of Mr. Lofft’s Letter, for point" read “ -Page 425, 
line 19 from bottom, for Fifths" read “ Thirds"—At the date of Mr. Cumberlani>’s 
Article relative to the Musical Prodigy, for “ Soobury " read ‘‘ Sodbury."—\n the Life of 
Mr. Mar itn, change the letter r into n, and »ead Mansfeld" at page 556 j—ami 
Funguses, at page 557, col. 2. 
