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MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

XXVII.]

FOR JANUARY, 1798.

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A few days fince was published (price One Shilling) the SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, completing the FOURTH VOLUME of this Work. The Articles contained in it are conceived to be highly valuable andinterefting; among them are the following::---1. The balf yearly Retrofpet of the State and Progrefs of Domeftic Literature.---z. A curious Tranflation from Plato, by Mr. TAYLOR, on the Atlantic History and on the State of Athens, nine thousand Year's prior to Solon, which has never before appeared in any modern Language--3. Experiments on Pruffian Blue, by M. PROUST;---4. Mr. RICHTER on neceffary Connection :---5. On Exchanges;---6. Proportion of Light from Combustible Bodies, by J. H. HASSENFRATZ;---7. LALANDE's Hiftory of Aftronomy for 1796; ---8.The Medals of the French Revolution, &c.--9. Defcription of the Marine School at Amfterdam;---to. Lives of Vandermonde and Flandrin;---11. Account of the Perfon who committed Suicide at Bristol ;---12. Conclufion of Mathematical Questions, &c.&c. With the Title and Indexes to the Volume.

The four Volumes may now therefore be had complete, of every Bookfeller, price One Pound Nine Shillings, neatly half bound.

For the Monthly Magazine. OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER

IN LONDON IN 1797.

Twintow of a room in the first floor, HE thermometer, hung out of the with a north-weft expofure, gave the following averages at nine in the morning : January 384 February 35 March 39

April 48

May 523

June 59

July 66 Auguft 631 September 56% October 48 November 41 December 424 Average of the year, 491 That of the year 1796 was 49: fo that the difference of heat in the two years confifted almoft folely in the diftribution, not in the fun. In 1796, the first months were warmer, the middle of fummer cooler, and the end of the year more frofty, than in 1797. With respect to heat, the year 1797 offers little remarkable, except that February was colder than March, almoft as cold as January; and that December was warmer than November. The excefs of July above June is also somewhat uncommon. The wetness of 1797 has been the most obfervable circumftance attending it, in which it has furpaffed all the years for a confiderable period. As no actual measurement of rain has been taken by the prefent writer, he can only give the loofe refult of his daily obfervations on the state of the weather. From thefe it appears, that the four first months of the year were by no means unusually wet. February, on the contrary, was uncommonly dry; but fog was confiderably prevalent in it and the other cold months. MONTHLY Mag, No, XXV.

May began with much rain; but became fine, with a high degree of heat, in its advance; and ftrong lightning was an earlier occurrence than ufual in it. June was very variable: it had a fufficient number of fine days to engage the farmer in cutting down all the grafs, which the preceding month had brought to unusual rankness of growth, but had alfo fuch alterations of heavy rain, that hay-making was a very difficult and uncertain bufinefs. July had great heats and some tremendous thunder: it was, on the whole, a tolerably fair month; but was liable to occafional storms of wind and rain, which did much damage in beating down the corn, which from the length and thickness of its stalk, was generally unable to recover itself. Auguft afforded very unfavourable weather for getting in the harveft.

Its nights were for the most part rainy, and prevented the benefit of many drying days. September began pretty fair, but ended rainy. One perfectly fair week in the beginning of October was the whole of the ufual Michaelmas jummer. The rest of the month was warm, and variable. Cold and wet, and warm and wet, were the refpective characters of November and December, with occasional tempeftuous weather, fog, and an uncommon moisture in the atmosphere, even when it did not rain. The prevalent winds in the whole latter part of the year were from the fouth and weft quarters. If a northerly wind one day gave an appearance of the fetting in of winter, a change on the next, railed the temperature of the air to autumnal warnth, and co

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