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ative, high and brilliant ; on the 3xft, 
fteady, low, and denfe. Wind very often 
brifk and boifterous. Mean mid-day tem- 
perature 44.33- 
April comimenced amid’ heavy fhowers 
of {now. The weather continued without 
variation cold and bleak, and unfavour- 
able to vegetation, till the 25th. The 
fnow whitened the ground on the 22d, 
23d, and 24th ; but towards the end the 
weather was foftened of its feverity, and 
breathed the delicious gales of fpring.— 
The appearance of the heavens was in 
general thick and cloudy; the wind, till 
the.2oth, blowing continually from the 
north-eaft ; after which ‘* Favonius be- 
gan to re-infpire the frozen earth,”’ and 
foftened the afperity of the keen northern 
blafts, which had prevented the germs of 
the vegetable world from unfclding.— 
Mean mid day temperature 43.3. 
May begaa with delighttul weather ; 
continued moftly fair till about the gth ; 
on the roth we had a loud peal of thun. 
der ; moift weather fucceeeded, invariably 
warm and genial, withtranfjent gleams of 
funthine ; the rain which fell was regular, 
and in moderate quantities ; fo that ve- 
setation, which had been completely re- 
tarded by the cold weather in April, now 
made a rapid progrefs. The fields and 
woodlands in this neighbourhood never 
exhibited more luxuriant tints than they 
did at this time. Mean mid-day tempe- 
yrature 61.2. 
Fune commenced with fhowers of mild 
rain. This month was throughout fultry, 
with very little funfhine. On the 24th we 
had a thunder-{torm, which continued 
nearly all day, 2¢companied with vivid 
lightning and heavy fhowers of rain.— 
Perhaps it may be worthy of remark, that 
the mean temperature of this month and 
the laft exceeded the mean of the fame 
months of the laft four years almoft ten 
degrees. Greateit height of the thermo- 
meter on the 23d, when it was at 77.— 
Mean mid-day temperature 66.63. 
July began with dry pleafant weather, 
which changed-on the 3d. On that day 
and the qth we had fome vivid lightning 
and loud peals of thunder, fuccecded by 
cold weather, with the wied from the 
ealt. 
fouth-welt ; after which the weather con- 
tinued very warm, with refrefhing fhowers 
to the end of the month. On Sunday 15th 
the thermometer at 77. Mean mid-day 
temperature 67-4. 
Auguf, in the beginning, promifed to 
On the 18th the wind thifted to the- 
Weather at Carlile. 7 
be fair and pleafant ; but on the 3d the 
weather. broke with a dreadful ftcorvm of 
thunden and lightning, accompanied with 
torrents of rain. From this time to the 
17th we had not a day without, fome 
heavy rain. Upwards of five inches feil 
during thefe fourteen days. About this 
time the wet weather began’ to abare, 
and fair weather (but chicfly cloudy) 
continued to the end of the month.— 
Lightning on the evening of the zgth.— 
Mean mid-day temperature 65.3. 
September commenced with a promife 
of fine ferene weather ; fome light thowers 
-variewated the feafon; but about the &rh 
it became fair and fe:tled, and exceed. 
ingly pleafant. About the rsth tne wea. 
ther became very hot and fultry, which 
continued fora few days. Some heavy 
fhowers of rain cocled tie air extremely ; 
_ after which the weather grew more tempe- 
rate; continued diveriified by. light 
fhowers till the zoth, after which it orew 
rather ftormy ; but this was of thort dura- 
tion. Continued fair and pleafant till the 
end of the month. Mean mid-day tempe- 
rature' 64. 
Some drizzling fhowers introduced the 
month of Ofeber, which incrafed te 
tonfirmed wet weather. Rain almoft ia- 
ceflantly till the 8:h. Oa the s2th the 
heavens were brilliantly illuminated with 
the Aurora Borealis; about talf patt 
feven o’clock in the evening, feveral bumai-. 
nous concentric horizontal arches were ob- 
ferved in the north, the centers of which | 
appeared to be in the magnetic meridian 5 
ateight, freamers in denfe columns begua 
to run to and tro from welt toeait, exhibit- 
ing a variety of prifmatic colours,and foon 
fpread over the whole hemifphere. Their 
motion was ex-remely rapid, and generally 
in zig-zag directions. This beautiful 
and fublime fpectacle continued tai! near 
ten o'clock, after which it was changed 
into flafhing irradiations ; but even then 
the beams ‘darted over the whole hemi- 
fphere, and were moft enthantingly beauti« 
ful. About half pait ten, the phenome- 
non began to grow fainter, and {oon after 
totally difappeared. The weather coni- 
nued wet and fhowery tl Sunday, 21%, 
when a violent rain began, which conti- 
nued for the jucceeding torty-eight hours 
without intermiffion. The rivers Eden 
and Cauda {woln exceedingly high: the 
beautiful flat grounds which furround 
Carlifle intirely overflowed, fo that the 
town feemed as if fituated on the borders 
of anex:enfive dake, The Cauds, a beauti- 
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