THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 

No. XUL] 

JANUARY, 

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Original articles : 
Befides the neceflary’ Title Page and Index, it contains the following valuable and \ 
1. Wocabulary of the Language of Madagafcar, with Dialogues—2z. The 
Topograpby and Natural Hiftory of the Swifs Alps, by the late BaRon HALLER.— 3. Heads 
of an Effay on Civil Jurifprudence, read before a learned Society.—q. Calculations for afcer- 
taining the Adia of Chrift’s Nativity—es. A free Differtation on the National Advantages of 
an Abolition of Tithes by Purchafe; and a more equal Payment of the Clergy.—-6. Account 
of the late Voyage round the World, by the French Commander ENTRECASTEAUX, made for 
the Purpofe of Difcovery, and alfo in Search of La Peyrouse, in 1791-2-3.-—7. The rela- 
cion of a Hearing in Prefence of the King and the Judges, touching Wales and the Four Coun- 
ties, 1608. Alfoc, Sir RoBgertT CecrL’s Speech, 
23 El. Anno 1581, concerning the Jurif- 
diction of the Councell of Wales and the Marches.—8. Memoirs of the late Emprefs of Ruf- 
fia, with Original Anecdotes of the Court of Peterfburgh.—g. A Comparifon between the An- 
cient and Modern Styles of Mufic, in waich the Merits and Demerits of each are refpectively 
pointed out,——10. The Sqiire’s Tale, imitated: from Chaucer.—11. A Meteorological Jour- 
nal, for September, Otober, November, and December, 1796, at Sou:hgate, Middlefex.o— 
12. Errata, Corrections, é&c. of former Numbers. 

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ON THE WEATHER IN , LONDON 
DURING THE YEAR 1796. 
A THERMOMETER hung out of a 
window up one pair of ftairs, facing 
the north-weit, obferved at nine o’clock 
in the morning, gave the following ave- 
rages: 
January 462. 
February 40. 
July 622. 
Augutt 621, 
March 392. September 60, 
April 505. O&vber AW 
May 5316: November aot, 
June 605. December 311. 
Average for the whole year, 49x: 
The ftate of heat in the firft three 
months is very remarkable. January had 
a full {pring warmth, and probably the 
cbferwations of a great number of years 
y would not exhibit one with fo high an 
average. February might be denomi- 
- nated rather warm than cold ; but March 
was confiderably colder than its ufual 
average. ‘This gave a falutary check to 
the forwardnefs of vegetation, which the 
warmth of the beginning of the year 
had promoted. April rofe to a due 
Monrsry Mac. No. XII. 
{pring medium ; and in this year the ob- 
fervation, that the average heat of April 
is nearly that of the year, held good. 
May was under its common medium. 
The four fucceeding months were regu- 
lar and temperate as to their heat. June 
and September, July and Auguft, nearly 
coinciding ; the two latter in due pro- 
portion warmer than the two former. 
The heat declined rapidly in O€tober and 
November; and December proved un- 
ufuelly cold, its average falling a little 
below the freezing point. The froft came 
in fits of great intenfity, with interven- 
ing thaws. The moft fevere was on the 
24th and 2sth. The night between them 
is faid to have been colder in fome of the 
circumjacent villages than any upon re- 
cord; but the thermometer, whence the 
prefent obfervations were taken, did not 
ftand lower than 9% in the morning of 
the 25th. The rife from thence was ex- 
tremely rapid, and before the clofe of the 
month it had obtained 4o degrees above 
the point to which it had been de- 
preffed. 
The general charaéter of the year, 
with refpect to other circumftances, has 
B been 
