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sivelv hot,—on the 24th, the thermo¬ 
meter was as high as 7S°? and the aver¬ 
age 69°. In tire beginning of the 
month, thunder was frequently heard 
at a distance, accompanied with vivid 
lightning. 
September .—The weather was on the 
whole very wet, and extremely moist 
and sultry; we seldom experienced 
more unfavourable weather than the 
present for securing the harvest; the 
rain was seldom heavy, but generally 
light and drizzling, and the weather 
almost uniformly sultry, moist, and 
gloomy. 
October .—Was unseasonably mild, 
and remarkably wet and unpleasant, 
the quantity of rain, 4*67 inches, is 
nearly double our monthly average; 
in the nights, on the 20th, 21st, and 
22nd, we had much lightning, with 
thunder and heavy showers of large 
hail. 
November .—Was a succession of the 
same unseasonable, mild, and ex¬ 
tremely wet weather, which was expe¬ 
rienced during the preceding mouth. 
On the morning of the 4fh, ice was 
observed on the ponds in this neigh¬ 
bourhood, which soon disappeared; at 
this time much snow was observed on 
the surrounding mountains, and the 
weather; excepting this instance, was 
uniformly mild, the thermometer being 
seldom below 40°, but frequently 50o, 
and upwards; the quantity of rain, 4*7 
inches, exceeds that of the preceding 
month; the rivers often overflowed 
their banks; some violent hurricanes 
occurred, particularly in the latter part 
of the month; in the evening of the 
26tli, an aurora borealis was observed 
here, the sky being rather hazy at 
the time, therefore not brilliant or in¬ 
teresting. 
December .—This month, like the 
two last, was unseasonably mild, and 
extremely wet, and stormy; we were 
frequently visited with dreadful hur¬ 
ricanes, accompanied with torrents of 
rain, but the most remarkable meteoro¬ 
logical occurrence, in this season of 
the year, was a tremendous thunder¬ 
storm. On the 18th, in the former 
part of the day, much lightning was 
observed, with distant thunder ; in the 
afternoon it increased to a most violent 
storm, and appeared to pass direct over 
this city; the peals of thunder were 
dreadfully loud and appalling, the light¬ 
ning which was of an azure colour, was 
extremely dense and vivid, and was 
accompanied with torrents of bail and 
rain. The fall of rain, &c. these three 
last months, amounts to 14 inches, and 
of six former months, viz., Jan., Feb., 
and the four summer months, only 8 
inches; some trifling hoar-frost occur¬ 
red in the mornings, which were often 
succeeded by storms of wind and rain ; 
snow was frequently observed on the 
surrounding mountains. The very 
high average of the thermometer 42*1, 
is probably unprecedented in the same 
month in this climate. The average of 
the barometer, 29 32 inches, was never 
so low during the period of this re 
gister. 
Carlisle , 2nd Jan. 1S22. W. Pitt. 
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