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| @ifirwations on abe Stare of the Wearker, from the rgth of September to the 24 of OBaber , 
Sov ee Ce 
Se llOl* doth see eae SE TROROLOGICAL REPORT. cy a Redd won ol? 
i Sed, inclufive, two Miles Ne W. of Si. Paul's. E 
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Bavometer. Thermometers - 
Higheh 30-45» Sept. 26 & 27. Wind N.E. | Highelt 65°, Odober 6... Wind, 8.W. 
. 25.0. OGoberr4, Wind N.E. | Loweft 31°, “October.t0e & 26. _ Wind N.E. 
- , Barly in the morning of 
the roth, the thermome- 
ter was a degree below 
the freezing point; and 
atthe fame, hour on the 
On the soth in- 
I FRE ftani, 10 the morn- 
, Greateft 2 ing, the mercury Greatelt Q 
wariation. in ¢ 6 tenths. ftood at 3-.14, & | Variation in’ & as 
24 hours, 5 at the fame hour 24 hours. § 
eo next day i¢ was no | : 1th, it food as high as 
higher than 29-54, Sh We PR a Rly at MeN 
The quantity of rain fallen during this and the laft months, is equal to 2i inches in depth. 
The ftate of the atmofphere fince our lait report has been very variable; and fome phene-, 
a have occurred that merit notice... The pith iaftant, the day in which the mercury in ba- 
er fell fix. tenths, and in which the thermometer, was..25° higher, than on the preceding. 
was remarkable for one of the ioweit tides in the river Thames, that was ever known in 
-memoryof man. On the réth, the thermometer was below the freezing-point, which was, 
as might be expected, accompanied with a {mart froft: and on the 17th, there was, for the fea. 
fon, an uncommonly ‘heavy ftorm of lightning,’thunder, and hail. On the aad, there fell a 
farge quantity of rain; and about- halt paft twelve at noon, the darknefs in London was very 
rznverkable. : ces an Ate 
On Tuefday, the 23d, at feven tn the evening, a luminous arch was feén from the’ centre of 
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London, extending from a point of the horizon about S.S.W., to another point about N.N.W , : 
aod-pafiing over the middle of the conftellation of the Great Bear, which it in a gieat meafure 
ebfcured. It appeared to confit of a fhining vapour, and to roll from the fouth'to the north, 
¥s about half an hour, its courfe was from S.8.W. to N: it afterwards: became: vertical ; 
and about nine o’clock extended from S.W. to N.E. At intervals, the continuity of the lumi. 
gious arch was broken, and then there darted from its fouth-weft quaxter, towatds the zenith, 
ftsong flafhes and ftreaks of bright red, fimilar to what appears in the atmofphere during-a great. 
five in any part of. the metropolis- For feyeral hours, the atmofphere was as light in the fouth- 
weft, as. though the fun had fet but half an hour ; and the light in the north refembled the ftron z 
twilight which marks that part of the horizon at midfummer. . Ai fimilar phenomtenom was feen, 
by the prefent obferver, in the Centre of England, about the year £7gQ0. Bae) adh 
Gn the fame fubjec, acorrefpondent from Thetford writes.—‘* About half paft eight o’clock, 
Loblerved'a very fingular and awful appearance in the heavens. There was a confiderable 
effiufion of a very thin gauzy vapour, nearly vertical over the point where I ftood. It fpread. 
ext in long feathery itreams, and feemed to diverge from a central fpot in an umbrella form. 
Em the eaft and weft, there were two more denfe and cloudy mafies of this vapour, which af-. ‘ 
fumed the colour of blood, not of dark and venous, but of bright a terial blood. There was a 
marrow ftream of a fainter red, which pafled trom one of thefe maffes to the other through the 
central point of the white. In the red mafles of vapour, there was an occafional, but very 
fi cht, variation of tint, from 2 brighter to a deeper, and from a deeper to a brightet, red. Thele 
ghenomena lafted for more than twenty minutes, when the red mafles began gradually to difap- 
pear, the one receding to the ealt, the other to the weft. In he mesn time, the white vapour 
became tremulous and agitated; and the parts began to feparate from each other, in long ftreams, 
endawith a twinkling, radiating, motion. At the edge of the horizon, in the norta, there was a 
Eerge collection of denfe vapour, the body of which feemed perfeftly at reit ; buttrom the furface, 
tin, gaffz, portions, kept occafionally difengaging themfelves; and, in their motions.and ap~ 
pearaaces, they exactly refembled the white vapour ahove-meutioned.—-Luminous matter was 
@ dently contained in both. The moon was all the while (hining im another part of the hea- 
wens, bright, and without. a cloud.’” Other Communications are r quefted. 
The average height of the barometer for the month, is 29-87; thac of the thermometer S28? 42: me 
‘The wind, has osen very variable. i? eee 
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Sew tag 2 RRESPONDEN TS. 
The Communications with the following Signatures, are not adapted for Infertion in the 
Monthly Magazine. 3. K. of. Liverpool,—C. E. ef Knarelboro’,—A Peacher—A. of 
Winckiteld.-—-G. H. of Edinburgh. —-T. H or TF ttenhall.-Melling, of Huntingdon, 
| is 2 an, Ore iverpool.—Graculus.—]. eo OF Nortingham.—Canditatus,——indy mion— 
Varius.—W. P, R.— A, Z.—Juvens—J. N, Cae Vi WP, SCA ee Fe 
~-An old. Cortefpondent.-A Coniaat Reader —H.—M. N,—Curiofns.—<W N.—J. T. +g 
—Ignotus.—C. V, L —-Numa.—A. P.—=Philalethes.--].G, ole 
Thoie on the following funjetts do not fait us. The Ode to Fear.—Remarks on Meo) 
Elaithgs,—On Valzac Errorss—fLhe Storne—Letters: from, Vrinidad.—~Excorhon in Ges- a 
Bry-Bidlical Queiye-—The Retired Gentleman.—Steel-water at Cheltenham.—Refec- 
tions.on.a Village near Louson.—-4ccount of MackitnawPhs Poet's Dittvefs.—Blegy on 
Dt, PriettieysaeMMethod of adyuiting Flaciey’s Sextaat. “ ‘ 
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