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o f twenty hours from 20 to 3 4 ; and funk again as rapidly chap.
in the fame fpace of time. Although I examined the tW _ . 1U' ,
mometer every day, yet I did not attempt to form a feries of
regular obfervations, which I now very much regret. I oc—
cafionally, indeed, made a few remarks, which I fhall infert
in a note, as I find them fcattered in my journal; they will
tend to confirm the truth of what I have advanced in relation
to the change of weather obfervable at Peteriburgh, and will
ferve to contradidl thoie authors who have aflerted that as-
foon as the hard froit commences, the cold continues with
uniform feverity, and- with little variation, durins; the whole:
feafon *.
When the froil was not very leverej namely, when the
mercury in Farenheit’s thermometer was not below 10, I
frequently walked out in a common great-coat. When the
cold was more intenie, I imitated the drefs of the native gentry,
and wore, in my daily excurfions through the city, a
ey or large fur clouk, liir boots or ihoes, a black velvet
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* Nov. 16, To-day a,thaw , f he fher- Jan^-i. r 779. Weather very changeable,,
mometer mounted to 4° : >n. the evening the thermometer one morning at _ 8> the
fliarp froft again ■ the mercu ry fa llin g .!? a o . n e x t above f re e z ih g point : this w in ter i t
N o v . T h e thermometer at | , has r io t'a s-y e t Been low e r than — 13.
a n -p. * T 1 l > . '< Jan. 6. T h e rm om e te r a t 1-4.
De c.. 3 I t has been thefe few days 9. Thermometer a t - 7 i i the barometer
moftly a thaw and changeable weather. mounted fuddedy vety high - fince laft night.-
e a u I f thermometer fell alinoli io . Early this morning the thermomefitddenly
from 33 to rou ter at - a 3, and at eleven at— aolv Ba~
Dec. n . T herm ome terat— to. rometer at 3 0 ^ . T h e fmolte o f the
f C; , ludden thaw whlch conti'~ . c'himnies was prefied-down- to the grmind
nued the 15th and 16th. Ir Thprmnmpfpr it -a m -n „ rr' l mometer at — 2«, according too'
mu Thermometer at — 7- , my own obfervation, at ten in the morning:.-
. \ * . T h e™ ometer at — and a* fog but earlier the merciuy had funk t o a*»
i t the fame time. or 63; below freezing point. ;
19.. Windy, thaw, thermometer above 15. Thermometer, fince th e -n th ; rofe
freezing point ■ • - gradually | on.tlie txth in- the morninn i f
* n angeabie Weather all this week, flood a t - ,3 : from thence it fell to o, to.
fcom.ftiarp froft to. fuddcn.thaw. ' t 5ii and to-day it is-'above freezing point.
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