500 '- Meteorehgical Réeport.? { Deca, 
rior quality. Barley is good, but the pricelow. Clover feed will be very fine, and the pro , 
duce tolerably ous 
The prices of grain keep nearly as in ner laft. Wheat averages 548. 9d. Rye 36s. tod. 
Barley 26s. Oats 24s. 1d. ‘Beans 38s. i1d. Peafe 41s. 54. i 
The opennefs of the feafon has tended, in fume mesfure, to lower the prices of hay. In 
St. James’s Market, Hay iells from 41. 6s. to 51. 155. Straw, from il.4s to Fl. 13s. At 
w bcecbane! Market, Hay feils from 41. qs. to6!. Clover, from él. to 6l. 145. Straws 
rom tl. 8s. to wl. 74s. 
The prices of both jean and fat fiock keep much the fame as in our la&. In Smithfield 
Market, Beef fold from 4s. 4d. to §s. 8d.. Mutton, from 4s. €d.tu ae 64. Veal, from Po eee F 
Pork, eS gs. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Lamb, from 4s. $4. to 5s.4d. In Newgate and Leadenhall 
Markets, Beef fold from 33. 8d. to-gs. Sd. Mutton, from 3s. to 4s. 4a. Veal, from 4s to 
6s. 4d. Pork, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. ad. Lamb, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d. 
Good Milch-cows keep very high. Horfes, of the good tedale kind, likewife fetch very 
high prices. ; ; 
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MEFEOROLOGIC AL-REPG RT. 
Obfervations on the State of the Weather, from the 2512 of OF. to the 24th of Now. 1803> 
inclufive, two mises N. W. of Se..Paul’s. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highef 37.42. O&. 26. Wind N. E, ‘Higheft 60°. O&. 25, Wind N. E. 
Loweit 28.70, Nov. 11. Wind W. Lowett 30°. Nov. 4,15, 24, Wind N. E. 
Between the middle es aM 
fof the fourth and % On the sth inftant the 
eee 72 Mone } fifth days of the pre- SES 2. thermometer was not 
variation in \dredths of < variation in 
; ak fent month the ba- h 4 r5°.< highe: than 38°, but ies 
24 hours. 5 an inch. someter fell rom | 24 Boe Gah epee high as <2° 
" 30.20 to 2y-48. { ‘ 
The quantity of rain fallen fince the laft report is equal to 5, 536 inches in depth. boa 
We have, at length, had another fainy month, which, after the long drought, has been of 
great confequence to the interefts of agriculture, and in! land navigation 3 fcarcely acanal in 
the kingdom that has not fuffered very materially for_want of water, and the bufinefs of 
many have been totally ftopped ; of courfe, in Gloucefterfhire, and many other of the inland 
paris of the kingdom, the price of coals, and other eeianibdities depending on water-carriage, 
has been doubled. On the 25th and 26th the barometer was in a rifing’ftate ; the fucceed- 
ing four days it fell Berdually, but very flowly 5 3 but the wind continuing north-eaft, rain was 
mot to be expeéted’; and in the evening of the goth, the mercury. rofe, and conbinited ftation- 
ary, but high, €30, 24) till the morning of the 4th inflant, when the wind getting towards — 
the fouth, it fell with great rapidity, and with ita deal of heavy rain. For the whele month, 
the average height ofthe barometer is 29, 585 which is lower thamit haz been for any month 
fince Janu ary. .The average height of the thermometer is 46° aes 
On Sunday the rach, pehatin eight and nine in the evening, was feen, nat only in the me-. 
tropolis and its ncighourhvood, but in a great many and diftant parts of the kingdom, a very 
extraordinary meteor. From an almoft aed darknefs, in an inftant the whole hemifp here. 
became light as ee It came from the north-eaft, and paffcd with great rapidity to the op- 
polite point of the horizon. Thofe who were well fituated for the purpofe of obfervation, de- 
fcribe it as having been vifible for the fpace of two minutes. No two perfons, however, 
feem to agree in their delcription of the apparent fize or fhape of the luminous body. The 
time for obfervation being foffhort, and its {ydden and unexpected appearance, which, in moft’ 
eifes, feems to have excited.emotions of terror, allowed no fpace for forming thofe pants 
conceptions of its magnitude and diftance, the knowledge of which ee have been exceeds 
ingly interefting to chofe who are engaged in meteorological inquirie 
Between three and four o’cleck in theafternoon of the 22d, was. dips i one of the moft 
tremenduous ftorms of rain and hail, accompanied with loud and repeated beat S of thunder 
and lightning, that was ever known at this feafon. 
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