1810.] 
shattering it in a most dreadful man- 
ner. On the 16th, we were again visited 
by a violent storm of thunder and light- 
ning, accompanied with showers of hail, 
which commenced about seven or eight 
o’clock in the morning, and, with some 
short intervals of cessation, continued 
till night; the thunder was. at times 
dreadfully loud, and the lightning very 
dense and vivid. The weather continued 
very sultry and moist, with much light- 
ning and distant thunder, ull the 26th; 
the remainder was extremely wet and 
cold, and the mountains in this neigh- 
‘bourhood were completely covered with 
Sow. 
June.—The heavy rains which oc- 
‘curred at the commencement of this 
month, caused another considerable in- 
undation here, which was productive of 
much injury to the crops in the low 
grounds; the mountains at this time 
were covered with snow. The weather 
continued showery and remarkably cold 
till the 18th; the remainder was fair and 
exceedingly pleasant. 
~ July.—The mean temperature of this 
month (59,35) is unusually low for the 
season ; the weather was dry, and on the. 
whole very favourable for securing the 
hay. On the 26th we had some lightning, 
and distant thunder. 
August.—The weather during this 
month was excessively wet and gloomy, 
which not only impeded the harvest, 
but was also attended with considerable 
injury tothe gram. During the night of 
the 17th, the sky was iluminated with 
incessant gleams of lightning. 
September.—This month, like the last, 
was excessively wet: we seldom have 
witnessed a season more unfavourable 
for harvesting the grain than the pre- 
sent; during this, aud the last month, 
only eleven of the sixty-one days were 
fair. From the 19th of July till the end 
ef this month, the variations of temve- 
rature and density were very trifling; 
the invariable wet weather, and westerly 
winds, produced a sort of crisis in the 
atmosphere. Notwithstanding the un- 
common humidity, the meaa height of 
the barometer for this period (29,7 
inches) is only one-tenth of an. inch 
and a small fractional part below the 
general mean; yet, excepting afew hours 
en the 15th of this month, the mercury, 
during those ten weeks, was constantly 
below thirty inéhes. But the principal 
occurrence to be-recorded this month, is 
one of the -most alarming and destructive 
inundations that were ever experienced ia 
Weather at Carlisle during last Year. 3071 
this part of the country. A heavy and 
incessant rain from the east commenced 
here on the morning of the 18th, and 
continued without ltermission tul the: 
following morning; when the rivers 
which environ, Carlisle, the Eden, the. 
Caldew, and the Peteril, everflowed 
their banks to an extent never before 
witnessed ; and exhibited a scene of dis 
tress, of which it is difficult to express 
an adequate idea. ‘The greatest proportion 
of destruction was effected by the Cal- 
dew, whose mountain-torrentswept away 
every thing before it; cattle and sheep 
were carried down by the current, and 
Immense quantities of grain were swept 
away and entirely lost; attimes, the fuod 
presented the. singular appearance ef 
moving fields of corn; houses were 
washed down, and fursitare of almost 
every description floated away; a greag. 
number of bridges were destroyed ; ina. 
nufacturing machinery, timber, trees, 
fences, &c. were all carried away ni one 
promiscuous ruiir. Lhe losses sustained 
by this terrible deluge are incalculable. 
October.—The weather Guring, this 
month was mild, cali, dry, and: piensant 2 
and the temperature and density remarke 
ably equal: such a series of fair and bril- 
liant weather, without frost, as that ex- 
perienced this month, is in cur climate, 
in this season of the year, a very uncom 
mon occurrence. ‘The hirundines were 
unusua}ly late in leaving us this season - 
these birds were in flocks on the 97th of 
last month; after which time none were 
seen till the 15th of this month, wher 
considerable numbers collected agains 
after this, the numbers decreased vradual. 
ly, the last stragg’ers being seen on the 224, 
November continued mild and dry 
and remarkably fine, tll the {ths the 
rain which fell during this peridd (seven 
weeks) of uninterrupted fine weather, 
amounted to only balf an inch in depth. 
Aiter the 15th, the weather was varie 
able, and frequently very severe: when 
intense frost, snow, sleet, and mild rain, 
occurred in succession. On the 19th, 
the frost w as/ particularly severe, the 
averave tempelature being eight degrees 
below the freezing point, at which time 
ali our mountains were clothed in white, 
December.—The. weather throughout 
he whole of this month, excepting two 
_or three mornings of hoar frost, was mild, 
humid, and gloomy; and during the 
former half of the month, the wind was 
often very violent, and accompanied with 
heavy falls of hail and sleet. On the 
oh oe 
night of the d4th, we had a dreadful 
hurricane 
