Barometer-average, 29.01 highest, December 6 lowest, December 15. Thermometer-average, 26.6; highest, December 29; lowest, December 27. Southwest... Southwest... West .... Northwest. West West ... Northwest.. Southwest.. Northwest.. Northwest. East. Northwest.. ...... Southeast Northwest. Northwest.. East....... West Dec. The foregoing record was kept at Beaver Brook, Sullivan county, State of New York, elevated about 500 or 600 feet above the level of the sea. The barometer is placed in a hall not immediately subject to the influence of a change of temperature. The record of the thermometer is, therefore, no guide for the out-door temperature, especially in winter. The temperature of summer, as it would be in the shade, would probably agree pretty well with the record. The out-door temperature in winter, in extreme cold weather, would be (from actual experiment) from 10° to 20° lower than indicated by this record. The foregoing has been prepared principally under my personal observation. When absent from home, I have had to depend on others. The figures I believe to be correct; but, when absent, the wind and atmospheric changes have not been noticed as particularly as I might wish. Having no weather-vane, the wind is noticed only to the nearest main point. CHAS. J. WOODWARD. BEAVER BROOK, January 1, 1852. N. B. The time of observation has been, generally, sunrise, noon, and C. J. W. sunset. Table showing the quantity of rain that fell in Philadelphia. from 1845 to 1851, from an account kept at the Pennsyl vania Hospital. METEOROLOGICAL STATEMENT FOR 1851 AT ALL SAINT'S PARISH, WACCAMAW, 8. C. January ..... 17th, 70 28th, 78 31st, 19 - 1st, 21 57 51 55.46 41.74 13th, 14th, 60 to 29-31 14th, 29 to 57-28 44.87 12 18th, 38 to 59-21 47.82 11th, 37 to 64 20th, 35 to 62-27 46.00 26 8 3.31. 2 13 2.57 2.19 17 ... 2d, 76 7th, 32 44 } 69 {19th 18th 19 50 61.30 46.43 53.86 25th, 26th, 67 to 36-31 9th, 39 to 67-28 49.30 10 3.73 25 38.00 45.72 26th, 27th, 66 to 33-33 29th, 41 to 69-28 42.83 5 1.43 1 21 December.. 10th, 29th, 111 46.53 1 2231 The thermometer was highest, July 28th-930. The thermometer was lowest, January 31st, December 18th and 19th-190. Range, 740. Mean temperature, 640.49. Mean of dew-point, 2 p. m., 560.12. |