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~ December i. 1 this day observed that the following wild plants were still in flower. Cori 
gon fumitory (fumaria officinalis) red-flowered campion (Lychnis dioica) and common tormentil, 
(tormentilla officinalis) furze Culex Europeeus), and wall-flower (cheirantbus cheri). 
The herrings, that have been caught on our coasts have been more abundant than was at 
first. expected. The shoals, however, did not continue in our neighbourhood more than a 
month: Sothe few had shed their spawn, but the greater portion of them were in the highest . 
Meieorological Report. 
erfection, having their ovaries fully distended. ‘ 
A shoal of pilchards was observed at some little distance frorn our shores, but it went away 
without any of them being caught. : ; 
December 9. In consequence of the late severe- weather, the snipes have congregated, 
and are found inthe marshes in small flocks. Woodcocks are more numerous than usual 5 
and it was supposed that the frosts would make the waterfowl very abundant, but this has not 
been particularly the case. No wild swans or hoopers (anas cygaus of Linnzus), have as yet — 
been seen. CRAARONN wt 
I am just informed that a gentleman farmer in this neighbourhood had young lambs as early 
as the 12th of November. : 
December16. The fetid hellebore (Aelleborus feetidus), the Christmas rose hellebore (el/e- 
orus niger), and the hepatica (anemone bepatica) are in flowers A salmon trout was taken this 
day, in the nets employed in catching flat fish. 
Hampshire, December 19. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 25th of November to the 24th.of 
December, 1807, inclusive, Two Miles N.W. of St. Paul’s. 
Barometer. 
Highest 30.3. Dec. 21. Wind S. E. 
Lowest 29.4. Nov. 25. Wind Sv W. 
Thermometer. 
| Highett 45°. Dec. 14. Wind West. __ 
Lowe 21°. Nov. 28, and Dec. 8, Wind N. W. 
Before su-rise on - 
both the above named 
Oe tei eee days the thermometer 
> 57 hun- 
; mercury was at Greateft ers 
pian “ fees 29.4, but at the | variationin ¢ 12°. 9 whi nit acon 
v : ’ 
a same hour on the | 24 hours. aavh pine seta das: 
“- =: Qd it stood as high 
as 29.97 Oth of Dec. the mer=- - 
cury was at 33°. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month is too inconsiderable to be noticed; we have however 
had one very heavy fall of snow and in many parts of the country the deepness of the snow has 
been productive of much mischief and of the loss of a great number of sheep. In the neigh- 
bourhood of the metropolis a few accidents occurred from the same cause, and still more from 
_ the sudden severe frost and the equally sudden thaw. 
Wecannot well avoid noticing the diiference of temperature between the present month, 
and that of the same month last year. In December 1806, the thermometer was never once 
so lowas the freezing point, and for fourteen or fifteen nights it stood at between 50° and 60° : 
in the course of this month the mercury has been twice at 21°, once at 25°, thrice at 28°, six 
timesat 32° or the freezing point, and about as often at 33°. Theaverage height for the whole 
month is less than 35°, whereas the average height for December 1806 was nearly 48°. During 
this month, we have had scarcely any rain, but in the same period last year the quantity of’ 
sain fallen was equal to full five and a halfinches in depth. 
The principal feature of the month is that of foggy and gloomy weather intermingled with a 
very few fine days. The mean height of thermometer for the month is, as we have notice, 
34.9. Fromthe 1ith tothe 24th, the barometer has stood very steadily higher than 30°. 
The eclipse of the sun which, if the weather had been favourable, would have been visible 
onthe 29th November, could not, owing to the haziness of weather, he seen during the 
whole period of obscuration, which, from the commencement to the end lasted nearly two 
hours. 
In our next number, as usual, we shall among the original communications give a summary 
of the weather for the year with observations; and we intend hereafter to annex to the mete- 
rological report, brief notices of remarkable celestial phenomena for each succeeding month. 
On the 30tk of Fanuary will be published, the SuppLEMENTARY NUMBER to our 
Twenty-fourth Volume, containing—Hatr-Yearty Rerrospecrs of DomeEsti¢ 
and Frency LITERATURE, with copious InpExes, Tires, &c, , 
