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Asgust3, The small Brows beetle denominated by Linnzeus” plinus. pectinicornis, appears 
on old wood, : 
August 6. The meadow saffron - (colchicum cautymoale,) soap-wort, (saponaria ciate) 
Strawberry trefoil (trifolium fragiferum,) yellow medick (medicags falcata,) common St. John’s 
wort (Aypericum perforatum,) trailing St. John’s wort (Byp erica rai haat and erates Ste 
John’s wort (Aypericum elodes,) are now in flower. 
August 16, The wheat harvest has commenced. 
Lapwings beg'n to congregate. 
August 18. The young broods of wasps have come to life, and are flying about i int immense 
numbers. Jt is remarked by Mr. Markwick, in his edition of the Rey. W. White’s Natural 
History of Selborne, that, inthe year 1775, these insects abounded so prodigiously, that in 
the month of August, no fewer than seven or eight nests were plowed Ee in one field. 
The goat suckets have not yet left us. . 
August 20, The emperor moth (dombyx Ravens of’ Haworth,) and the drinker ‘moth, 
(Lombyx potatorius,) Ay abroad. 
August 94, House flies are now abundant. 
The clouded-yellow butterflies (papilia edusa) are seen,! Aying about the hedges and fields, 
August 27. It was Supposed that the bees would have been very unproductive this year: 
ei the late fine weather, after the rain which preceded it, has tend@d greatly to recover 
them. 
August 30. The wheat harvest is nearly at an end, and the whole crop has been harvested. 
in this part of the Country, ‘without-a single wet ee 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of August 1810, to the 
24th of September 1810, Se aaaad Four Miles N.NAV. of St. Pauls, 
Barometer: - Thermometer. 
Highesty 30 00. Sept. an 15, Wind N. Highest, 8t°. Sept. 2d. Wind CR 
west, 29:59. Sept. 47 ~— N, W. Lowest, A359, wen —— 15. ee N. W. 
% On the 3d of Sept. 
ehontest bs win: This small vari- Greatest the -mereury was as 
high as 73°, and on 
the next day it was 
F . 2 y a ee - - . a ss 
‘| ne higher than 50° ° i 
Oh hare. § ofan inch. seyeral times in FA hours, 
the course of the} 
eh raonth, 
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Tne quantity of rain fallen this month, i is equal to about two inches in depth... 
Never was there a more favourable season for the gathering and housing the corn: its lates. 
ness has beea amply fepaid by its excetlence.; We remark, that there have Paee out of 
thirty-one days scarcely more than six”or eight on which there has been rains and almost 
all the others may be denominated brilliant. The weather has not only beéa finer, but the 
temperature has been,.on the average for the whole month, high er | (Viz. 632 early, ) thar 
it has been all the summer : 
in June, the average heat was 619-2 
5 fe ae RMT 
— Augé ; 60 : 2 
Serpe a be 8 
-The hottest day in the year was on Sunday the 2d of September, when the mercury stood 
@s high as 81°; besides this, it'stood at 80° on the 1st; was one other day at 799°; one at 
-&825 four at.772 3 and once at 76°. <A few days have then cold ;,and onge or twice there 
were severe storms: and in-the night of the Sist ult. the shunder was louder than was ever 
remembered to have been heard. The wind has been chiefly N. N-W. Oa this ‘hill there 
have been two thick fogs, brought by southerly | winds. 
Highgate, Sept. 24, 1810, . 
Errata. -In the first article. of this Magazine, signed Common Se NSE, , page 202, col. 
1, line 3, for ** service,” read ¢* privilege” 
And in the note relative to a communication of the same correspondent, at page 199 ofour - 
Yast, transpose the words ¢* on the Gounitry bankers, to. meet the general rp,” into ** to meet 
the general runon the country bankers.” 
Page 214, col. 1, for 6 Kedilestone,” read * Keddlestone.” 
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