86s Aleteorological Report. (April Fr, 
Cattle, both of the fat and lean kind, keep up. Lean fheep are alfo highert han ufual 
at this period. Hogs have likewife been fold high. At Smithfied Market, March 22, beef 
fold from 4s. 3d. to 5s. 8d.; mutton, 6s.to 7s. ; veal, ss. Gd. to 4s. 64.5; pork, 5s. 4d. to 
Gs. 8d. At Newgate and Leadenhall Markets, beef fold from 3s. 8d. to 4s. $d. 5 mutton, 
4s. 4d. to gs. 3d. 5 veal, 4s. 8d. to 6s. 4d.3 pork, gs. 4d. to 5s. Sd. : 1) 
Hay. At St. James’s Market, March 20, hay fold from 2). 17s. to 5!, 10s.; ftraw, 
gl. os. 6d. to 21. ¥2s. 6d. At Whitechapel; hay, 4]. tos]. ras. ; clover, sl. 10s. to 6s. 125.3" 
firaw, rl. 18s, to 2}. 8s. Mra 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Obferwations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of February to the 
24th of March, 1802, iaclufive, tavo miles N.W. of St.Pauls. ~ 
NN 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Higheft 30.2. March 17, Wind W. Higheft 63° March 24, Wind S. W. 
Loweft 29.15. Feb. 25, Wind N. E- Loweft 26° March 5, Wind N. E. 
On the morn-. ; 
, ing of the 25th March 4, in the 
Greatet } 75 hun- 
w2s as low as | variationin meter was at 36°, on 
29.15,at the fame | 24 hours, the next morning it 
time next day it was down at 26%. 
ftood at 29.90. ; 
ult. the mercury intonin ¢ § morning, the thermo- 
2 
Vase 
¥ariation in $dredsofan- 
24 hours. - inch. l 
@uantity of rain fallen this month is equal to .692 inches of depth. 
We feldom recolle& to have had, at this feafon of the year, a more pleafant month than 
that which is juft finifhed. Thirteen days have been diftinguifhed for their brilliancy, be- 
fides feveral others in which there has been neither rain nor fnow. The temperature has been 
moderate, the average heat for the whole month being 404 nearly. Notwithftanding thefe 
favourable circumftances vegetation is uncommonly b>ckward, which is probably occafioned 
by a few fevere frofty nights between the 4th and roth, and again between the 14thand 17th 
of the prefent month. ; 
TheNenfity of the atmofphere has been greater than ufual; the mean height of the baro- 
meter having been 29.89; and, with the exception of the inftance above referred te, the va- 
riations have been but trifling. Pins 
The wind has been chiefly in the wefterly points. It appears from Citizen Lalande’s Hif- 
tery of Aftronomy, printed in another part of this Number, and from a paperin the Fournal 
de Phyfique, that great attention is now paid tothe fubject of meteorology, in France, ‘and 
fome other parts of the Continent. Toaldo, in Italy, the two Duhamels, and Citizen Cotte 
have lately publifhed feveral feries of obfervations, together with rules and methods for 
making them with accuracy. Many philofophers, phyficians, chemifts, and perfons devoted 
to agriculture, are {preading, by their example, a tafte for this kindof ftudy. This may, 
perhaps, be the means of extending a fcience which, at prefent, has not been fufficiently at- 
tended to. 
Since the fyftem of nature is uniform in all its operations, and the changes to which it is 
fubje& muft, in every department, depend on fixed and permanent caufes, nothing feems 
more defireable than that we fhouid be able to trace the immediate principles which conduce 
to the varieties obfervable in the ftate of the atmofphere. Accurate knowledge, in this re- 
{pect, independently of its utility in praCtical agriculture, might be rendered highly advan- 
tageous to the health of the human fpecies. 
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