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in some of the days the heat was as great as it frequently is’ during summer. Since ‘this 
time we had a considerable fall of rain. alias 
May 1. The nightingale is heard to sg. The white-throat (motacilla sylvia, of Linnzus) 
and the wheat ear(motacilla cenanthe) are arrived. ; : erie 
I this day saw the eomiton copper butterfly (papilio phleas) and the cockchaffer. 
Common fumitory, (fumaria officinalis) greater stechwort (stellaria bolostea) and Cuckoo pitt, 
(arum maculatum) ave. m flower. 
May 3. The cuckoo sings; and the shrub snails ( elit arbustorum) appear ahroad. 
The crown imperial, soft leaved craneshill (geranium meolle) glaucous leaved halmia (kalmia 
géauca trailing daphne (daphne cueorum) are in flower. The hedges are green; and the fower- 
hig stalks of the hawthorn begin to appear- 
For a few days past the perch have collected together in great numbers in some particular 
parts of the rivers where there is no current, and where the bottom of the water is covered 
with weeds, forthe purpose of depositing their spawn. I was shewn one place where there 
must have been at least five hundred of these fsa. . 
The young fry of some species of fish are now swimming about in immense quantities in 
the shallows. Several of them are not more than a quarter of an inch in length, and they 
are much broader across the eyes than in any other part of their body. They are proba 
bly either roach or dace. ' 
May 10th. In consequence of the ram that has fallen im the course of the last fortnight, 
vegetation has come forward ina very surprizing manner. Several of the trees which usually 
put forth their leaves at the distance of some days trom each other, are ali coming into leaf 
nearly at once. The e/m, the vak, the maple, and the /ime, are all beginning to appear green. 
The -subterraneous trefoil (trifolium subterraneum), germander (veronica chaniedeys), yellow horned 
poppy (Glaucium luteum of Smith), the barebell (scilla nutaus of Smith), and the broom (spartium, 
scoparium), are in flower. vr 
The sedge warbler, called in this part of the country, spire chatter (motacilla salicaria), 1s ate 
rived, and its beautifully wild notes are now heard every day about the banks of the rivers. 
May 19th. The weather, for several days past, has been very clear and fine. Nearly 
all the more hardy fruit trees are in flower ; and im consequence of the lateness of the season 
it is supposed that the crops will be very abundant. A 
Hampshire. 
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METEGROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Obfervations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of April to the 24th of 
Moy, 1807, inclufive, Two Miles N.W. of St. Paul's. 
% Barometer. i Thermometer. 
Higheftt 30.3. May 18. Wind N.E, Highe@t 80°. May 24. Wind East . 
Loweft 29.0. May 6. Wind S. Lowe 42°. -—— 20. Wind East 
‘On the evening of | _ 
the 9th inst. the This variation, which 
Gecck at ? AO hun. ) Mercury ftood at- reste ) 1s but trifling, has oc- 
variation in ‘ af We: : 
same hour on the DAL Bayar times in the course of 
10th it was as high |-~ “ the month. 
‘ as 29°86, 
variation in \ dredths of 
29:37, and at the > go curred three or four 
24 hours. an inch, § 
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The quantity of rain fallen since the last Report,’is equal to nearly four inches in height. 
. The temperature of this month has been at times uncommonly high: on the 27th of April 
the thermometer stood at 75°, we were toid that in some parts of London it was as high as 
80° in the shade; here, however, it was not higher than 75°, to which it rose also on the ist 
and 7d days of May: and on the 24th it rose to 80°. The first instance was the more remark- 
able as within eight days of the time, viz. on the 19th-the ground was covered with snow, 
and the thermometer two successive mornings was as low as 26°. ‘The ,average temperature | 
for the month is very nearly 59°, which is about 4° higher than it was for the same period 
last year ; and nearly 10° higher than it was for May 1805-3 but in the same month, 1804, 1€ 
was 58°. The wind has been chiefly in-the East, bat upon.the whole the season is remark- 
ably favourable to fructification. . What are usually with. gardeners,termed blights are 
generally supposed to come fromthe East: the wind has, as.nsual, come much from that 
quarter this spring, but the’ blights have not been very. frequent*nor very fatal.~ In a garden 
at Hampstedd we saw a few days ago twotrees. ouly materially affected with the blight, and 
what seems singular, is, that those-were almost the only trees in the garden (which is of 
considerable extent) that seem completely shaded from the eastern aspect. 
