1807.] State of the Weather from Christmas 1805 to 1806. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N prefenting to your readers a Sum- 
mary of the State of the Weather, 
from Chriftmas-day 1805 to the fame day 
1806, I will previouily lay before them 
the average heat for each month of the 
laft year, and of thofe in the preceding: 
1805 1806, 
Jane . $4.58 ~— 41.276 
Pepe, seo — 41.3 
March 43.568 — 42.25 
April 45.76 — 44.76 
May 49.45 — 55.20 
June 55.895 —~ 62 
July 59.432 — 62 
Auguft 61.850 — 62 
Sept. 58 — 59.70 
Oct. 47 — 52.50 
Noy. 39,333 — 50,00 
ac y,18835 — 47.00 
The year 47.368 51.665 
In the former of thefe years, the ave- 
rage heat encreafed from month to month 
till Auguft; but in the latter there was 
no increate of heat after June: for that 
and the two following months, the. mean 
heat was 62°. It muft indeed be in 
the recolleétion of all your readers, that 
the hotteft days m the whole year were 
in June; and it now appears to have 
been fo much the cafe, as to equal the 
higher temperature that is ufually ex- 
perienced in. the months of July ‘and 
Auguft, With vegard.to the whole year, 
the average of 1805 was rather lower 
than ufual, and that of 1806 has. been 
higher than that of common years. The 
mean height of the barometer for the 
year is equal to 29.815, which is not 
quite 5th of an inch lower than it was 
for the preceding year ; though the quan- 
tity of rain for 1806 has been equal to 
-42 inches in depth, while that for 1805 
was only 25 inches: this is a frefh proof 
of what in the courfe of our monthly 
reports we have frequently referred to, 
that the quantity of rain is in all cafes 
in proportion to the high temperature of 
the atmofphere. 
During the year there have been 141 
days very brilliant; 119 in which there 
has been rain; on 17 there has fallen 
fnow or hail; the remaining 88 days 
‘may be nearly equally divided into fair 
and cloudy days: among the latter muft 
_ nied with fome tremendous ftorms. 
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be reckoned about 10 days in which fogs 
have prevailed the greater part of the 
day. 
The ftate of the wind has been as fol- 
lows: N. 16, 5.19, W. 84, E. 27, N.E. 
48, S.E, 26, N.W. 76, S. 69. 
The month of January was remark- 
able for ftorms and heavy rains, that 
occurred ulually in the night. February 
was noted for its great variablenefs, both 
in the preflure and temperature of the 
atmofphere. March, for its fevere frofts 
and heavy fnows. April, for its north and 
north-eaiterly winds, May, for its eafter- 
ly winds, which were attended with much 
mifchict to the gardens, particularly to 
the fruit trees. June was noted tor the 
vreat heat of fome of its days, though 
on others tke northerly and ealterly 
winds were fevere ; in fotne parts of the’ 
country there were itorms, attend~ 
ed with thunder, lightning, and _ hail: 
this was a remarkably dry month. But 
the following month was uncommonly 
wet, and the heavy rains were accompa= 
Aus 
guft was alfo-marked by the ftorminefs 
of many of its days; but on the whole 
it was favourable to the harveft. In Sep- 
tember and Oétober the weather was 
mild, and very fuitable to the feafon and 
chinate of the country. The months of 
November and December were remark- 
able for their high temperature, and for 
the great quantity of rain ‘which fell. 
It may be obferved, that there have 
been fewer fogs in thefe months than 
ufual, 
Ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CONTRIBUTIONS 0 ENGLISH SYNONYMY. 
One. Only. Alone. Lonely. Lonefome. 
NITY is the common idea which 
pervades all thefe words. That is 
one, of which there are any. That is only, 
of which there are iio more. That is alone, 
which is a¢tually unaccompanied. That 
is lonely, or lonefome, which is habitu- 
ally unaccompanied.. One child. An 
only child. A child alone. A lonely 
child. 
According to the Gentiles, Jupiter was 
one god, and Neptune another; accord- 
ing to the Jews, Jehovah was the only 
god: if god means an object of human 
worfhip, the Gentilés were right, and 
the Jews were wrong, but if god means 
the Supreme Leing, there can be but 
Be 
One 
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