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Straw, as is ufual at this feafon, is high. At St. James’s Market, Sat. Dec. 26, ftraw fold 
¥rom rt}. 10s. to 2l.2s. At Whitechapel Market, from rl. tos.‘to 1116s. 
The annual thew of prize cattle’ at Smithficld was remarkably we!l «tended this year. "The 
principal prizes were obtained by Mr. Westcary fora Heretordthire ox; by Mr Warxine 
son, of Woodhoufe, Leiceiterthire, -for-a fheep of the new Leicefter Seed; and by Me 
Helman for a fheep of the South Down breed. The Dukeot Bedford obtained iome premiums iff 
feveral claffes. te " a 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Odjervations on the Staie of the Weather, from the 24th of November to the 24th of a 
December ticiujive, 1801, two miles N.W. of St. Paubs. a 
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Barometer. tk SEIS Thermometer, 
Highet 49.98. Dec. 19 & 20; Wind W. — |: Highef 53°. Dec. 5. Wind W. 
Lowe sees Be. rs Wind W. Loweft 18°. Dec: 18. Wind W.by Ne” 
(On the 8th inf. 
- s about noon the ba- 
rometer food. at 
oo 29.3 3 thenext day eee 
» Greateft 2 _. at the fame hour} Greateft inf: 
_ 7-tenths ~ ithad fallen to 28. | Variation in ge thermometer was at 
(Betwéen 7 & $ in the. 
morning of the 4th inft: 
Variation in aes t 
24 hours. , of an inch 6, in the former | 24 hours, J 27°. at the fame oo 
cafe the’ thermo- the sth it ftcod at 53°. 
meter ftood at 40°, 
i in the latter it was 
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50°. 
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The quantity of rain fallen fince the lat report, is equal to 4.498 inches of depth. = 
We have, in our laft two or three reports, marked the great and fudden vdriablenefs in the 
ftate of the atmofphere. The changes during the laft month have been fill morg remark- 
able ; fome of the principal variations will be deferving of notice between the mornings of 
the 4th and 5th of December, the barometer fell fix-tenths of an inch, confequently , the 
prefiure of the atmofphere upon the body of every coimmon fized perfon was equahto about 
fix hundred pounds weight greater on the former day, than on the latter. ' And whenit is — 
confidered that during the famé period the thermometer rofe 26° viz, fram 27 to 53, we 
might naturally expeét that fo fudden achange, both in the preflure and ‘temperature of the 
atmofphere, would have a confiderable effe& upon the health and fpirits of the animal frames 
In theevening of the 13th inftant, between the hours of feven and half paft nine, the a= 
rora Borealis wes more brilliant and beautiful than we had witneffed for many years $ at one 
part of the time, broad beams of light diverged from a point in the weftern horizon, over a 
great part of the vifible hemifphere. At another period they put on the appearance of the 
ares of a rainbow. only much broader, and extended from one fide of the Heavens tothe others 
croffing the magnttic-meridian at right angles. oes 
The feverity of the weather from the 12h to the 20th inftant, was unufually great 5 in 
the morning ofethe 28th, jut before fun-rife, the thermometer Mood.at 18° or 14 degrees 
below the freezing point. ~ At the fame time on the 2oth it was as low as 19°, and at nine 
o’clock in)the evening of that day it was as high as 39°. It is -worth remarking that\in the © 
feveral fevere frofts during the laft month the wind was almoft uniformly in the welt, from.) ~ 
which quarterit has chiefly blown fince our laft notice. ft has becnin the eaft but two dayse-- Ms 
There have been twenty days without rain or fnow. A ceafiderable fall of fnow happened» - - 
on the 27th of November, fome more feil on the jothy and a little again om the 16th of the 
prefent month. “hs 
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