NOTES. Eighth Mo. 19. Clear morning. 23. A little rain, even, ing. 24. Cloudy morning: smart shower at noon; a considerable appearance for thunder, evening. 25. Stratus: fine sunset. 26. Much dew, a. m.: cloudy. 28. Foggy morning: fair: Stratus. 29. Very foggy fair. 30. Cloudy morning. 31. Wet morning: stormy night, with heavy rain.

Ninth Mo. (1. This was a very wet day at Paris.) 2. Hoar frost this morning: there is said to have been thick ice formed in several exposed situations, 3. Rain, with much wind in the night. 4. A hard shower of hail, followed by rain about noon. 5. Wet morning;

fair day after. 6. Cloudy a. m.: misty to the S: overcast day. 7. Maximum of temperature at 9 a. m.: fair day. 8. Fair: wind rising at SW in the evening, and Nimbi about. 9. It began to rain about 7 a. m. and continued till 3 p. m.: after which a very stormy night, the lower clouds moving much faster than the higher. 10. Fair day. 11. Much dew: fair: Cirrocumulus for two days past. 12. Much dew: fair. 13. Dew: misty a. m.: a few drops at midday, after much cloud and wind: the sky at sunset appeared to be clearing gradually.

RESULTS.

Winds Variable in the fore part, Westerly in the latter.

Barometer: Greatest height...

30.20 in.

.29.22 in.

29.872 in.

70°

30°

55.29°

3.49 in.

The two preceding periods, with so much of the present as is com prehended in the Eighth Month, apply in point of local circumstance, to the scite of the Laboratory, where the Observations were conducted by my friend and partner, John Gibson.

During a tour of nine weeks, in this interval, extending from Amsterdam to Geneva, I had ample occasion to witness the fact, that the excessive rains of this summer were not confined to our own islands, but took place over a great part of the continent of Europe. From the sources of the Rhine among the Alps, to its embouchure in the German ocean, and through a space twice or thrice as broad from east to west, the whole season presented a series of storms and inundations. Not meadows and villages alone, but portions of cities and large towns, lay long under water: dikes were broken, bridges blown up, the crops spoiled or carried off by torrents, and the vintage ruined by the want of sun to bring out and ripen the fruit.

While the middle of Europe was thus suffering from wet, the North for a time, and to a certain extent, was parched with drought, and public prayers appear to have been ordered, about the same time, at Dantzic and Riga for rain, and at Paris for sunshine! The probable natural causes of this unequal distribution may form a subject for discussion in another part of the work: it would in this place be premature. I have deduced the principal part of the evidence respecting it from numerous circumstantial accounts of the weather given in the public papers during the summer months.

NOTES.-Ninth Mo. 14. The sky overcast, with numerous beds of Cirrocumulus, which at sunset changed to Cirrostratus, and became red. 15. An electrical smell a. m.: much dew: there appears to have been a Stratus in the night: serene day. 16. Much dew: large plumose Cirri: very fine. (A dreadful hurricane at Guadaloupe. Houses were levelled, plantations destroyed, and the soil driven about like dust in a whirlwind.) 17. Much dew: misty: fine day: in the evening a solitary Cumulus cloud in the W, spired up to inosculate with a Cirrostratus above it, a Stratus at the same time appearing in the meadows nearer to us: several discharges of lightning in the NW

followed these appearances: the barometer, which had fallen a little, now rising. 18. Overcast day: a little rain perceptible in the evening. 19. Fair, with a grey sky, and a few distinct Cirrostrati beneath. 20. Grey sky a. m.: then sunshine, with a breeze. 21. Cloudy a. m.: some dripping at midday: fair evening. 22. Cloudy, in different modifications. 23. (At Paris, abundance of rain, with a SE wind.) 24. Showers: breeze at SE, evening: misty air. 25. Misty to S: fair, with Cumulus beneath Cirrocumulus: a Stratus at night. 26. Various modifications of cloud: some rain in the night. 27. Cumulus beneath Cirrocumulus. 28. Cloudy morning, the wind increasing from the westward: rain, midday: fair evening. 29. Wet morning: much wind at Still evening : stormy night. 30. Fair, with Cirrostratus : much wind in the night.

'Tenth Mo. 1. Wet morning: much wind: lunar halo at night. 2. A plentiful dew: cloudy afterwards, with much wind: drizzling rain at intervals. 3. Cloudy a. m.: wind N: drizzling: in the night easterly, with mistyair. 4. Overcast: small rain. 5. Fair. 6. Misty morning: much dew: Cirrocumulus in the superior stratum, as for some days past at intervals: rain p. m. and night. 7. At twenty minutes before one this morning a loud explosion of electricity, which kept the ground in a sensible tremor for several seconds: it was followed by thunder in long peals, and vivid lightning to the south and east for above an hour: also by much wind and rain: the day was cloudy and drizzling after. 8. Fair: mostly cloudy : Stratus. 9. Cloudy: breeze at E: large Cirri: a few drops of rain: a well-formed mushroom was brought me, which measured twelve inches over the crown, and weighed twenty ounces. 10. Cirrocumulus above Cumulus : calm. 11. Fair, save a few drops. 12. Cloudy. 19. Cloudy : breeze.

Extract of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Gottenburgh, dated the 2d Oct. "On the 30th ult. at daylight, it came on to blow heavy at WSW; at nine it veered to the W, and blew a tremendous hurricane, which continued till almost 4 p.m. yesterday, when it moderated a little, but still blew a gale from the WNW. At five this morning it abated, and now blows only a fresh breeze."

NOTES.-Tenth Mo. 14. Much dew these two mornings past: gossamer. 15. Dew: somewhat misty air, with an electric odour: sunshine. 16. Misty: the trees dripping: calm: then sunshine, with a breeze at SE, and Cumuli, &c. 17. Morning overcast: rain by nine: rainbow: drips at intervals: fair. 18. Fair: a fine breeze through the day twilight pale orange, with Cirrostratus. 19. Wind and rain in the night. 20. Cloudy day. 21. Obscurity to the S, indicating rain there after dark, a flash of lightning to the SE, with a small , meteor. 22. Rain a. m., succeeded by a fair day and night. 23. Hoar frost clear a. m.: fine day. 24. Cloudy: windy at S: wet evening: