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5th. Mist and moderate rain.

6th. Hail and snow. in afternoon and evening. 7th. Roofs of houses covered with snow this morning. Cold rain and mist all day.

8th. Very blustering through the day. Evening very clear, and wind moderate.

9th. Air raw, with appearances of storm in the evening.

10th. Air raw. Cloudy in the afternoon. Clear at 10 P. M., and cooler.

11th. Light snow from S. W. from 11 A. M. to 2 P. M.; ground partly covered with snow. Evening clear.

12th. Air mild. Snow during the night.

13th. Nearly two inches of snow on the ground this morning. Wind fresh and cold at N'ly. 14th. Pleasant, though cold in the morning. 15th. Cloudy during the day. Clear and pleasant in the evening.

16th. Began to rain moderately from 8 to 10 P. M. Wind N. E'ly.

17th. Moderate rain in the morning. Clear and gusty in the evening.

18th. Cold, but not unpleasant. Very clear through the day.

19th. Moderate snow from 8 A. M., with rain in the evening.

20th. Between four or five inches of wet snow on the ground. Evening clear. 21st. Pleasant.

22d. Moderate snow at 7 P. M.; wind light N. E. 23d. At 7 A. M., barom. 28.76; wind fresh N. E; raining. At 10 A. M., bar. 28.65; wind light N'ly and mist. At 1.30 P. M., bar. 28.60. At 10 P. M., clouds broken.

24th. Very cold with a piercing wind from N. W. 25th. Cloudy in the afternoon. Began to snow moderately at 8 P. M. Wind light S. W.

26th. About a half inch of fresh snow on ground. 27th. Pleasant. Evening still and very clear. 28th. Pleasant morning. Cloudy in afternoon. Wind came to N. E. about 3 P. M. Began to snow moderately at 7 P. M.

29th. At 7 A. M., wind pretty heavy N. E., and snowing. At 9 A. M., wind nearly at N.; clouds thin and broken. Seven or eight inches of compact, heavy snow fallen.

30th. Cold day. Evening still and clear. 31st. Began to snow moderately at 5 P. M.

22d. Light 'ly rain and snow from 1 to 4 P. M. 23d. Very pleasant. Evening clear.

24th, 25th, and 26th. Very fine.

27th. Evening very clear.

28th. Began to rain gently at 10 P. M.

29th. At 9 A. M., barometer 28.92; at 10 A. M., 28.88 (not reduced). Wind light N. W. In the evening, wind very heavy at Ñ. W., and the cold very severe.

30th. Cold very severe, with wind high and piercing at N. W.

31st. Cold still severe and wind heavy.

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1st. The barometer from 9 to 10 A. M. stood at 30.91, reduced to sea level. Weather pleasant. 2d. Sprinkling of snow in the morning; the ground barely covered. Evening clear and mild. 3d. Very pleasant.

4th. Sprinkling of rain from 2 to 3 P. M.

5th. Mild.

6th. Moist snow from 6 to 10 A. M.; the ground covered with from one to two inches of snow. 7th. Evening very clear. Faint aurora in the north.

8th. Very cold.

9th. Light mist all day, which froze as it fell. 10th. Occasional dashes of rain. Evening extremely blustering.

11th. Morning very mild, with occasional light rain. Evening clear, and much cooler.

12th. Very faint aurora this evening.

13th. At 81⁄2 A. M., barometer 30.95, calm; at

11 A. M., 30 95, with wind light at S'ly; at noon, 30.92; at 5 P. M., 30.82, weather very fine. 14th. Occasional sprinkling of rain.

15th. Moderate rain in the morning; increased

in the afternoon. In the evening, clouds thin and somewhat broken.

16th. Pleasant. Evening very clear. Frost out of the ground in many places.

17th. Very fine.

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3d and 4th. Pleasant.

5th. Mild, warm, and very spring-like.

6th. Clouds general, but thin. Very warm for the season.

7th. Appearances of storm in the evening. 8th. Moist snow in morning, five or six inches deep. Dusting of snow in the evening.

9th. The ground this morning covered with from one to two inches of fresh snow, which fell during the night.

10th. A beautiful shower of snow, with large flakes, at 10 A. M. Evening fine.

11th. Pleasant. The snow of the 8th nearly all gone.

12th. Pleasant, but cool.

13th. Light snow in the afternoon.

14th. Cold this morning. Wind during the day swung round from N. E'ly, through the E., to S'ly. 15th. Clouds pretty general, but thin.

16th. Light hail in the afternoon. Air raw and uncomfortable.

17th. Moderate snow and hail all day. Wind heavy at night.

18th. Damp snow continued falling all day, which was much drifted by the violence of the wind; equal to six or seven inches on the average. 19th. Wind light, and heavens covered with thin clouds.

20th. Air full of snow from 7 to 10 A. M., and again at 6 P. M. Clear at 10 P. M. 21st. Pleasant.

22d. Very fine. Snow of the 17th and 18th nearly all gone.

23d. Mild. Clouds prevalent, but thin.

24th. Misty from 7 to 10 A. M. Pleasant in the afternoon.

25th. Pleasant.__Evening very clear.

26th and 27th. Very fine.

28th. Warm in the morning. Wind changed from S. W. to N. W., with a heavy gust, between

29th. Very fine.

30th. Pleasant.

31st. Pleasant, and the warmest day since the 24th of September last, being 188 days. Thermometer 73° at 1 P. M.

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9th and 10th. Very fine.

11th. Rather chilly.

12th. Cold and raw. Snow-flakes occasionally fell.

13th. Ground hardly frozen this morning.

14th. Ground again frozen. At 4 P. M., wind fresh S. E'ly; in the evening, N. E., and began to rain very moderately between 9 and 10 P. M.

15th. Mist and light rain through the day. In the evening, wind heavy.

16th. Wind and storm very heavy during the day. The barometer began to rise at 3 P. M., and, rising one-tenth of an inch, it became stationary at about 5% P. M., standing at 29.36 for six or eight hours. Flakes of snow, mingled with rain, fell from 10 to 11 A M.

17th. Storm somewhat abated, but still heavy. The amount of rain on the 16th and 17th somewhat uncertain, in consequence of one rain-gauge being blown from its place and the other leaking. It was not less than two inches, probably more. 18th. Occasional mist during the day. 19th. In the afternoon, wind high S. E'ly and very raw. Sprinkling of rain at 10 P. M.

20th. Rain, and snow in large heavy flakes which sometimes quite covered the ground. 21st. Moderate rain in afternoon and evening. 22d. Fine. Evening very clear.

23d to 26th. Very fine.

27th. Overcast, but clouds thin.

28th. Light sprinkling of rain.

29th. Pleasant.

30th. Began to rain very moderately at 4 P. M., increasing in the evening.

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22d. Pleasant in the morning. Began to rain very moderately at 6 P. M. Thunder and rain in the evening. Heavy rain and thunder about midnight.

23d. Cloudy in the morning; wind fresh and warm at S. W. About 5 P. M., wind came to N. W., very fresh. Evening clear. 24th, 25th, and 26th. Very fine.

27th. Pleasant. Sprinkling of rain at evening. 28th. Very fine.

29th. Began to rain moderately from 2 to 3 P. M. 30th. Light rain and mist at 6 P. M. Cloudy through the day. Very clear and cool in the evening.

31st. Pleasant.

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1st. Sprinkling of rain in the evening. 2d. Brisk shower between 4 and 5 P. M. Evening clear.

3d. Pleasant.

4th. Pleasant. Evening clear.

5th. Very fine From 8 to 12 P. M., bright aurora at the north, without streamers. A little before 10 P. M., a well-defined, luminous belt, from 2° to 30 in width, was observed stretching across the heavens from N. W. to S. E., reaching in either direction to within about 30° of the horizon. It had a slow motion S'ly, and disappeared in some twenty-five or thirty minutes after it was first noticed. The mid heavens being quite clear at the time, the belt was a conspicuous and beautiful object.

6th. Fine during the day. Appearances of rain in the evening.

7th. Rainy day.

8th. Raw and cold. Fires necessary to comfort. 9th. Rainy in the morning. Cloudy in the afternoon and evening.

27th. At 6 A. M., heavy thundershower, with

gust of wind. Aurora quite bright in the evening. 28th. Pleasant.

29th. Warm and sultry.

30th. Extremely hot, and very damp. At 21⁄2

P. M., thermometer 92° in the shade.

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16th. Appearance of rain in morning. Shower at 11 P. M.

17th. Very warm, and not much air.

18th. Pleasant, but rather sultry.

19th. Frequent showers, with a great deal of thunder and lightning. Thunder in some cases in the afternoon, very near and very heavy. 20th to 23d. Very fine.

24th. Occasional sprinkling of rain.

25th. Very sultry during the day. Thundershower from 10 to 11 P. M.

26th. Pleasant. Copious thundershower from noon to 1 P. M.

27th. Occasional light showers.

28th. Cool. Showery from 2 to 4 P. M.

29th. Rainy in the morning. Clear in the evening.

30th. Very cool. Fires quite necessary to comfort in the evening.

31st. Cold for the season. Fires quite necessary.

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1st. Mist in the morning.

2d. Very fine.

3d. Pleasant.

4th. Moderate rain in the afternoon; wind E'ly and N. E

5th. Pleasant. Evening clear.

6th. Very fine.

7th. Pleasant through the day. Began to rain moderately from 7 to 8 P. M.

8th. Fine. Evening very clear and splendid. 9th. Heavy shower from 7 to 8 A. M. Thundershower from 7 to 8 P. M. Watched for meteors from 10 P. M. till midnight, sky mostly clear, but only four were seen.

10th, 11th, and 12th. Pleasant.

13th. Very warm and sultry. Showers in the afternoon and evening.

14th. Heavy shower in the morning, with a good deal of thunder. Cloudy in the afternoon. Evening clear.

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13th. Very hot till 4 P. M., when we had a fine shower, with light thunder. Wind came round to N. E., and grew cooler fast; showers continued. At 10 P. M., the thermometer stood at 59°, having fallen 29° in eight hours.

14th. At 6 A. M., the thermometer stood at 48°; at 9 A. M., at 52° in the shade and exposed to a current of air, having varied through 40° in sixteen hours.

15th. White frost this morning in some places in this vicinity. The day cool, but pleasant. 16th. Very fine.

17th. Very fine. Evening cool. Fires necessary. 18th. Very fine.

19th. Very fine; the top of the ground quite dry.

20th. Very pleasant; burning sun at mid-day. 21st. Wind came to Ñ. E. from 6 to 7 P. M., with moderate rain.

22d. Cloudy, but no rain.

24th. Air very dry and clear.

25th. Very fine.

26th. Air raw in the afternoon. Sprinkling of rain in the evening.

27th. Morning rainy.

Clouds broken in the

afternoon. Rain again during the night.

28th. A good deal of mist, without rain. 29th. Light rain in the morning. Remarkable aurora of red light, which was very brilliant at 71⁄2 P. M., forming a splendid crown of light a little south of the zenith.

30th. Pleasant.

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