_Rainy Days._
23d A. M. ″ in the night, 25th ‴ in the night, 26th ′ morning.
Greatest height of the thermometer 71 on the 4th, at 3 P. M.
Least height 43 on the 29th, at 8 A. M.
Greatest height of the barometer 29 0½ on the 19th.
Least height 28 7 on the 26th and 27th.
The mercury in the thermometer, in the progress of the first fortnight,
descended from 58 to 52, the variation in the afternoon being generally
9 or 10; in the last fortnight it gradually fell from 52 to 44; the
variation in that time was seldom more than 6.
_DECEMBER._
The first fortnight, except two or three clear days, was for the most
part dark and cloudy; the 17th was serene, but from that to the 27th
foggy; the morning of the 28th clear, at noon cloudy, and rained
violently in the evening; the two last days of the year were serene and
pleasant, and through the whole month the weather was unusually mild.
Frequent calms, little winds, at east or north-east; on the 5th it blew
fresh at west, with a shower of hail.
_Rainy Days._
2d ′ P. M. 3d ‴ in the day, 4th ‴ in the day, 5th ′ P. M. 11th ′ in the
night, 12th ″ A. M. 13th ″, 14th ″, 23d ′ night, 25th ′ A. M. 28th ‴
afternoon and evening.
Greatest height of the thermometer 51 on the 17th and 20th, at 3 P. M.
Least height 43 on the 23d and 24th, at 8 A. M.
Greatest height of the barometer 29 0½ on the 20th.
Least height 28 5 on the 4th.
The height of the mercury in the thermometer throughout the month was 44
or 45 at eight in the morning; the variation in rainy weather nothing,
and at other times 2 or 1.