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tremely regular and temperate ; the ther- 
mometer never higher than 75, nor below 
.48, mid-day. This was onthe 7th, when 
it was rather cold, with light fhowers of 
hail.. The latter part moderately hot with 
foft fhowers and light breezes; 18 wet 
days. — Mean mid-day height of -the 
thermometer 61.55—heavielt rain during 
the year was on June the zoth, depth 
x.4. inches. 
‘July was in general intenfely hot, and a 
great deal of clear funfhine. The month 
commenced with warm fair and agreeable 
weather; on the 6th fome light fhowers, 
fucceeded by very warm weather, extremely 
hot and dry till the r9th, whea heavy rain 
came on, accompanied. by much thunder 
and lightning, which continued during 
moft of the following day. The air after- 
wards more temperate, light fhowers to- 
wards the end; 17 wet days during this 
month.—The mean mid-day height of the 
thermometer 71.65—on the 17th, 18th 
and roth the thermometer was at 80°, 81° 
and 80°. 
Auguft commenced with hot and fhowery 
weather, thunder frequently at a diftance, 
after the roth fair and very hot, the 16th 
and 17th extremely hot; thermometer at 
Zo° and $1°—afterwards more temperate 
- and plealant, drizzhng rains at intervals, 
and pleafant to the conclufion. Aurera 
borealis obferved, on Monday z5th, low 
and foon difappeared. In this month 
there were 20 wet days; onthe sth it 
rained heavily allday, depth 1.3 inches. — 
Mean mid-day height of the thermome- 
ter 65.4. 
September, moftly dry and pleafant ; 
fhowery days fometimes at intervals— 
_ 4m general favourable for the harveft; 3 
very wet days, on Friday 16th, Monday 
aoth, and Tuefday 2oth ; after that, ex- 
tremely ferene and warm to the end of 
the month; 12 wet days.—Mean mid-day 
height of the thermometer 58.73. 
Ogtober continued remarkably ferene 
and pleafant, and moftly fair till Saturday 
xs5th, when a fenfible change took place ; 
fhowers all day, fucceeded witli a tem- 
pefluous wind, which nearly {tripped all 
the woods in the neighbourhood, a week 
of rainy humid and foggy weather fuc- 
ceeded ; lightning obferved on Wednefday 
agth.—Aurora borealis on Wednefday 
“x2th, Jow and feady ; 12 wet days during 
the month.—Mean mid-day height of the 
thermometer 54.13; from the 22d'to the 
end of the month the weather unufually 
agreeable,fair and pleafant, the fky without 
2 cloud on the 28th and 29th. | 
. November commenced with a week of 
- remarkable dry weather, warm and plea- 
fant; continued ferene till ‘the 8th—after 
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Mr. Pitt?s Meteorological Regifter. 
that frequent fhowers with fhort ine 
tervals of froft; foggy dark weather du- 
ring the latter part of the month.—Au- 
rora borealis obferved Friday 25th, foon 
difappeared.—During November we had 
14. wet days——{now cbferved on the moun- 
tains on the 13th, the highways dufty on 
the 6th.—Thermometer 43.1. 
December came in with a mildnefs 
which foon changed to the moft intenfe 
froft which we have experienced for a few. 
years, the froft continued for a few days 
only ; on the 8th the thermometer was at 
8° at eight o’clock in the moming. The 
froft_ was fucceeded by wet and drizzly 
weather, fome {now and very dif- 
agreeable ; dark and gloomy, with very 
few clear days; on Saturday 24th ex- 
tremely itormy in the evening, dark and 
“rainy on the 25th, but no wind; mild 
and temperate during the remainder of the 
month, but extremely moift, dark and 
thick,—Mean mid-day height of the ther- 
moimeter 39.2—Aurora borealis obferved 
on the rath, low, and foon difappeared— 
22 days wet. Iam, Sir, 
Your’s, &c. 
Carlifie, Fan. 3d. 1804. W. Pres 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
] INCLOSE a Regifter of the Ther- 
mometer, Barometer, Winds, and 
“Weather, kept during the year 1803, in 
Perthfhise, about a mile from the Tay. 
The fpirit-of-wine thermometer, with 
which my obfervations were made, when 
high, ficod one degree, and, when low, 
two, three, and, cn one occafion, four 
degrees higher than in the foliowing table. 
But, having compared my thermometer, 
for the two laft months, with one which I 
borrowed from a friend, and which had 
been regulated by the very inftfument em- 
ployed ia furnithing your, Monthly Me- 
teorological Report, I have accommodated 
my Table for the whole year to the dif- 
ference which, during this period, I ob- 
ferye them regularly exhibit. (he account 
for thefe two months is given from the 
borrowed inftrument, and reduced, for the 
ten preceding ones, to what it would have | 
been by the fame inftrament.—J have fome 
reafon to fufpect that my barometer is 
graduated a little too low, but I have ne- 
ver had an opportunity of comparing it 
regularly with others.—In the column of 
wind and weather, where two different 
-accounts appear, the firft refers to the 
forenoon, and the ‘laft to the afternoon. 
The otber cbfervations were made at nine 
in the morning. Iam, Sir, 
Your moft cbedient fervant, 
Rs. eee as 
JANUARY, 
