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Kept at the Observatory of the Naval Academy, Gosport.

The units under " Clouds" represent the days on which each modification of cloud has appeared.

Days of the Month

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The observations in each line of this Table, under Barometer, Thermometer, Wind, and Rain, are
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A clear sky, 2; fine, with various modifications of clouds, 16; an overcast sky without rain,
6; rain, 5-Total, 30 days.

CLOUDS.

Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, Stratus, Cumulus, Cumulostratus, Nimbus.

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER,

FOR APRIL, 1822.
'GENERAL REPORT.

The former and latter part of this month was fair, with easterly winds; and the intermediate time alternately wet and dry. The quantity evaporated is equal to that of some summer months; yet, from the prevailing NE. winds and slight frost, which we anticipated in our last report, the mean temperature of the air was not progressive as through the winter season, but rather retarded: however, it is 140 above the mean of April for many years past. As a na tural consequence of the NE. winds, the mean temperature of spring water is a quarter of a degree below that of last month, which, as it respects the advance of the spring, is retrograde. The swallows arrived here on the 27th instant, twelve days later than their arrival last year. The mean of the hygrometer, as well as the great evaporation, shows that the air was very dry on fair days; and the mercury in the barometer was uniform and gentle in its elevations and depressions. We do not remember seeing, for many years past, a

Naval Academy, Gosport.

greater assemblage of millepedes, slugs, snails, and worms, than now infest the ground (the caterpillars, too, are rapidly increasing in number); and they have been very voracious and destructive of the young garden plants, where precaution was not taken to get rid of them. Their nu merous appearance was expected after the sun's rays had acquired power to warm the ground, from there having been scarcely any penetrating frost through the autumnal and winter months. Some blighty vapours have visited this place, but the succeeding rains have kept the profuse fruit blossoms clean and healthy.

The atmospheric and meteoric phænomena that have come within our observation this month, are 2 anthelia, 3 parhelia, 5 solar, and 2 lunar halos, 3 meteors, 5 rainbows, hoar frost on eight different mornings, and 4 gales of wind, or days on which they have prevailed, namely, 2 from NE., 1 from S., and 1 from SW.

DAILY REMARKS.

April 1. A slight frost early, and fair, with a brisk and very dry wind from the north.

2. A fine day, with a brisk NE. wind: overcast by night.

3. AM. overcast, and nearly opposite winds: PM. fine, with plumose Cirri, which, after diverging to their greatest extent, descended, and passed to Cirrostratus after sunset, when they had a very red tinge. A lunar halo appeared for several hours about 7° in diameter, composed of three rings of colours, viz. yellow immediately round the moon, green and red.

4. Overcast with Cumulostratus, and a light breeze from NW.

5. Sunshine through the openings of Cumulostratus clouds, which, in accumulating, let fall a few drops of rain at noon: a fine night.

6. Fair, with a dry wind, and various modifications of clouds; the passing Cirrocumuli in close white flocks had a fine appearance by moonlight.

7. A light hoar frost by sunrise, and a fair day heavy Cumulostratus by night, and a NE. wind.

8. Fair, but a cold NE. wind, and a few drops of rain from an inosculation of the clouds at noon. *

9. A slight hoar frost early; and the day and night as the preceding. At 4 PM. a faint but perfect anthelion appeared opposite to, and nearly of the same altitude

as the sun, upon a dense Cumulostratus cloud.

10. A slight hoar frost early, followed by a hard gale from the NE., with a sinking barometer, and the day mostly overcast with Cumulostratus: a shower of rain in the evening, and one trained meteor; and a clear sky by night.

11. A continuation of the very dry NE. gale (see evaporation column). AM. fair. PM. a solar halo, followed by an overcast sky, and rain in the night.

12. AM. overcast with Cumulostratus: sunshine in the afternoon, and a rainbow, whose apex was only a few degrees above the horizon: rain in the night.

13. A fair day, with a strong breeze from SW.: overcast by night with attenuated Cirrostratus, through which the stars were visible.

14. Calm with faint sunshine, then an attenuated veil of Cirrostratus, in which a solar halo appeared: cloudy and light rain at intervals by night.

15. AM. overcast and opposite winds, the upper one from SW.: PM. steady

rain.

16. AM. light rain and wind from NE.: PM. fine, with one anthelion, calm, and much dew.

17. Sunshine with Cirrocumulus, &c. and a variable wind, besides an upper current from the westward: the night as the preceding.

18. Hoar frost early, and a fine morning, with linear and plumose Cirri, Cirrocumuli, and opposite winds, the upper one from SW.: PM. mostly overcast with Cirrostratus.

19. Hoar frost early, and a fine day and night, except a little light rain at noon. 20. Hoar frost early, and a fair day, with various modifications of clouds: rain by night.

21. Two coloured parhelia with white trains at 8 AM. formed in very light cirrostrative haze, (not a perceptible cloud) their respective altitudes being 24°, and their radii from the sun's centre 24°; nearly afterwards a solar halo: PM. steady rain, and a gale from the south in the night.

22. A fine day, with a solar halo and a parhelion; heavy showers of rain after

sunset.

23. Two rainbows early, and light showers of rain, followed by a fair day and night, and a freshening wind. The unilluminated part of the moon's disc reflected a bright copper-colour this and the two following evenings, till she set.

24. AM. fine, but windy: PM. showery and two rainbows. The dark part of the

moon's disc was much brighter this evening than last.

25. AM. light rain and a gale from SW. PM. fine.

26. A sunny day, with a solar halo in the afternoon, and a lunar halo in the evening overcast with attenuated Cirrostratus by night, followed by rain.

27. AM. light rain and wind from the southward: gleams of sunshine in the afternoon, and overcast by night. Several swallows appeared here in the afternoon from the southward for the first time this spring, which is not so early as was expected from the mildness of the season, being 12 days later than they first appeared last spring.

28. AM. overcast and misty: a sunny afternoon, and a shrouded sky after sunset, followed by dew.

29. Fair, with distant Cirri, nascent Cumuli, and hot sunshine, till late in the afternoon: a clear sky after sunset.

30. A cloudless day and night (except a few small Cumulus clouds at noon), and a brisk gale from NE. The sunshine was unusually hot to-day for the latter end of April, the thermometer in the sun's rays having risen to 98°.

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HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF COALS (IN THE POOL),

In each Week, from April 29, to May 20.

April 29.

s. d. s. d. Newcastle. 32 6 to 41 0 Sunderland 31 6 to 41 6

May 6. May 13. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 30 0 to 39 9 30 0 to 38 3 31 0 to 35 3 0 0 to 0 0 31 6 to 41 6 31 0 to 41 0

May 20.

ACCOUNT OF CANALS, DOCKS, BRIDGES, WATER-WORKS, INSURANCE AND GAS-LIGHT COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS, &c.

By Messrs. WOLFE and EDMONDS, No. 9, 'Change-Alley, Cornhill.

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