(sia j--. {April fy 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. > 
Ohfervations on the State of the Weather, from February 25, 20 March 24, inclufive, Ewe 
Miles NW. of St« Paul's. 
Barometer. : ‘Thermometer. ao. S 
Higheft 30.00. Feb. 26. Wind NE. | Higheft 63° March 17. _ Wind S. 
Loweft 29.38. March 4. Wind N.E. | Loweft 242 Feb. 26 and x days in March N.E. 
: Between the mid- ae On the r7th inf. 
dle of the day on the thérmometer was 
Greateft gzhun- Ythe2dint.andthe | Greateft as high as 63°, and on 
wariation in +dredths of / fame hour on the | variationin ¢ 31° the 18th,at two o’clocks 
24 hours. Gan inch, 3d, the Mercury | 24 hours, 5 it was not higher thar 
fell from 29.85. to ‘ff the freezing point, oF 
29.52. 2 ae 32°. 
The quantity of rain fallen fince our Jaft report is equal to 4.15 inches in depth. 
The la month may be divided inte three dittin@ periods, with regard to the temperature 
ef the atmofphere. The firft eight or nin€é days it was very cold ; from the fourth to the fe- 
venteenth, inclufive, it gradually increafed in heat, till, as we have noted above, the ther- 
sro-neter, on the ljaft of thofe days, was as high as 63°, at which point, or nearly fo, it re= 
uz. ed between two and three hours; from the feventeenth till within the laft day it has 
b_en exceedingly fevere, during which the temperature has two or three times been feven or 
eight degrees below the freezing-point, and on fome of the days it has never once been 
higher than 32° or 33°. 
The wind, in the cold parts of the month, has blown from the N. E. and in the warmer 
days it has been W.S.W. Snow and hail, in fmall quantities, have fallen. three or four 
days. 
a er ere 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The feveral communications, with the after-mentioned Gignatures, do not fuit the plan of 
eur Mifcellany. . Wet 
Monitor Modeftus —(A. C.—B. C. &.)—N. N —A Conftant Reader.—Dete&tor.—B, F. 
E**** ~s. WH. T.—D. U.—(A. S. —W.)—A Highlander.—S. R. N—P. I. -O.—Nafica, 
—Publicus.—R. Jones. —J. D —J. Larwood.—-An Admiring Reader.—-An Officer.—J. C—=d. - 
—A- Trinitarian Immaterialift.—Philomelas —Enquirer.—Auditor.—-R. Sewell-—-R. W. 
—T. C.—C.—T.—A Britith Volunteer.—Volti—W. Lea.—-W. F.—W. H. W.—Cato.—= 
Heranio.—T. Boole.—H. S.—Orfon.—R. D.—W. D—S. Whitchurch.—-G. L. E. Nat-- 
“tingham.—J. S. C. (Tale)—A Reader —S.—Alban —S. Whitchurch.—-A Civil Ve- 
lunteer.—A. Z.—F. W. D —Vigornienfis.—P. M. James.—W. B. on Banger Ferry.—J. T. 
J. $.—J. R.—W. N. 
The Defcription of late Deirg.—Thoughts on the Volunteer Corps.—-The Poem on the » 
Mammoth, are inadmiffible. 
We cannot pledge ourfelves to infert Vida’s Game at Chefs till we have feen it. 
i LALO LL A TE 
Pe ERRATA. | 
In the plate of the Meteor, in No. rrt, for Nowember 6, read Nevember 13.7 
In page 229, of this Number, line 12, inftead of ¢¢ the three f{ummits or highet levels, viz. 
through, &c.” fhould be “ the rave fummits or higheft Levels, viz. through the tunnel at 
‘Braunftone, and through the deep cutting at Bulborne on the Chalk-hills near Tring, have 
“beth experienced the want of water even for the limited trade that has yet been carried on ; 
the water on the third fummit, viz. through the intended tunnel at Blifworth, has mot yet 
been proved by experience, equal to the wefte of locking down at Stoke-Bruerne.” 
in line 28, fame page, inftead of ‘* to preferve water for the Biifworth fummit,” read, * te 
preferve water for the very long and leaky level eur of Walverten.” 
