TABLE of Monthly and Seasonal Means of Temperature; also of Precipitation, Clouding, and Wind; deduced from observations made during the years 1861-2-3-4, at St. John, N. B., lat. 45° 16′ 42′′ N., long. 66° 3′ 45′′ W., and height above sea 135 feet, by G. Murdoch.

4.830

9'50

15 10 0'57

5'97

7:15 23:25

February March

22.37 42'5 -12'6 1064

28.57

April

38.30

44'0 2'0 16 10 598 +175 11.58

625 6.50 1.710 16.85 3.380 8.75 6:25 1546 25'03 4'675

9'10

14 15 150

5 72

49'20 72.2

6.50 7.00 3'020

June

55'53 73'5

418 1273

4'75 650 1917

July

60'65 75'3 512 9'79

6.50 800

4:255

4'255

August

60'94 73'5

47'8 10'II

6.50 700

4 224

4'224

September

5527 67'0

38.3 10:00

7.65 6.25

5.160

5 160

October

47.85 62.3

28.0 9'30 6.65

8.75

4 335

4'335

November

38.18

55'2

18.5

7.50 10.00 9'50

6'077

195

6'370

December

23'74

48.3

5.8 10:51

7'75

900

2915 14'75 4.687

3'020 9.30 15.70 1917 10'17 1170 3'77 7:47 18:30 8.75 7'92 1775 6.75 10 17 13.90 3.40 7:25 17:50 2'90 5.60 20'40 2.17 9'10 18.60 0.75

3'40

22'34

480-160 11.16 22.0

225

Spring Summer

38.68

72.3

2.0 11'51 175

2215

58.97

78.7

417 10:46 17.8

Autumn

46'96

64'3

18.3 8.98 23'0

6697 50'94 12:398 7'349 32'40 11'307 21.5 10.397 10'397 24'5 15 575 1.95 15.879

26'5 49'7

1.70

6'0

24'0 67'0

25'5 43'0

6'50

5.8

49'0

44'3

18:50

6'0 74'0

18.0

25 5.44 7 23'0 56.8 8.70 6.8 49'7 413 These observations have not been reduced, but as the temperatures are the result of six daily observations, they will very nearly represent true means. According to Mr. Hind (op. cit.) the differences between the climates of St. John and Fredericton are as follows:

CONSANGUINITY OF TRACADIE LEPERS.

Extracted from the Journal of the House of Assembly, New Brunswick, for 1847.

Anselm Laundre, the husband of

*Joseph Benoit + the son of

* Frances + who married

* Marin

the father of

the father of

** Tranquille

the grandfather of Mary Julian + the daughter of German, who married Margaret Gotreau

Victor Savoy, the brother of the father of

* Stanislaus

* Bernard

Joseph Breau, the father of

*Mary Clara +

((r) Anne Laundre, the wife of John Savoy the parents of Jos. Savoy, who was the father of Bonaventure and Victor Antoine Benoit, the husband of the first cousin of Mary Savoy, the sister of Firman Joseph Savoy, the son of Anne Laundre

Bonaventure, and second cousin to the father of *Veneranda

husband of Mary Levron, the half-sister of

Frederic Robicheau, the husband of (Cordulla Breau, the

Joseph Robicheau, the husband of Anasthasia Sonnier,

the father of

Peter

Mary, wife of Fidelle Savoy

*Margaret, wife of A. Boutillier

Victoire Robicheau, mother of Cyril Austen + a natural child
Mary Robicheau, the wife of Lewis Gould,

Savoy, the father of Margaret, wife of Frederick Robicheau, of Riviere du Lache, the parents of* Mary Rose Robicheau f the blood relative of Charlotte, the mother of Julia Laundre

the parents of Margaret, the wife of Peter Sonnier, the son of (John Sonnier, husband

Anne Poitier, the wife of Joseph Comeau

and grand-parents of the parents of Etienne and Charlotte Comeau (wife of Charles Tribideau, her first husband, and

* Julian Ferguson by her second husband Isaac Gotreau, Barbara, the mother of * John Oliver Gotreau

* Edward +

cross (+) denotes that the person has died of the disease. The asterisk (*) implies that the individual has been, or is, affected with Elephantiasis. The

Laundre were also Acadians, from Annapolis.
Antoine Benoit was an Acadian, and came from Annapolis, Nova Scotia. John Savoy and Anne

It may here be observed: "That nearly all the French (of Tracadie and thereabout), can trace
relationship with one another, owing to their intermarrying, and few or no strangers coming among
by the Catholic Church.'
them since their first settlement; and this is so general in Caraquette, that few families there can
intermarry without a dispensation, they being within the degrees of kindred disallowed to marry

+ Extract from a letter to Dr. Bayard from James Davidson, Esq.