The great drought which for so long a time prevailed was most severely felt throughout the country; in many parts the water in the ponds used for cattle was entirely exhausted, and none could be procured except from the rivers, in many instances at a considerable distance from the farmer's dwellings. Grass had become so universally scarce, that the farmer was obliged to feed his cattle with hay as in the severest winter.-(PUB. LEDGER, September 25.)

For these three weeks past it has rained in Wales almost every day. A gentleman just returned from thence states, that there was no shooting in the beginning of the month, on account of the constant and heavy rains.

(PUB. LEDGER, September 28.)

It appears from the papers, that much damage was done in Scotland by violent thunder storms, attended with inundations from excessive falls of rain on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of the ninth month.

Seventh Month, 28, 1815.

Being on a journey, I lodged this night at the hospitable mansion of a friend in Yorkshire. The scite commands an extensive and pretty deep valley, in which lies the town of Bradford with a considerable scattered population, and, in the bottom of the valley over against the house, some iron-works. When it grew dark, the large coke fires and flaming chimneys of the latter made a conspicuous appearance, representing a mass of buildings in a state of conflagration. Having enjoyed this spectacle over-night, and happening to wake at an early hour next morning, I looked out, to see what appearance the works would then put on. To my surprise for the moment, the various objects which I had before contemplated were not now to be found! An immenge Stratus had risen, and filled the valley: its level surface, on which the light of the morning began to be spread, lay stretched out like a lake, bounded by the opposite hills. But turning my view a

little to the left, I recognized the situation of the iron-works by the smoke and flames of the principal furnace, still rising from under this sea of vapour, in a manner which forcibly recalled the description of a submarine volcano. The smoke spread itself horizontally upon the surface of the cloud, probably by the effect of an opposite electricity; but the sun's rays presently began to disturb this arrangement, the Stratus was dissipated by six o'clock, and a fine day, as to this neighbourhood, was the result.

Proceeding, however, the same morning on my journey, and passing the mountainous ridge called Blackstone Edge into Lancashire, I remarked that, precisely at the summit of the ridge, we left the fair weather behind us, and encountered the first of a series of showers (at intervals indeed heavy rain), which continued the whole way to Liverpool.

NOTES.-Ninth Mo. 26. A rainy sound in the trees this morning, from a gale at S: this was followed by rain, during which the wind veered westward. 27. Damp a. m., somewhat misty air: Cirrus, with Cirrostratus: much wind and a heavy shower by noon, with a suspicious sound, like thunder, at a distance: p. m. a second shower, after which a fine bow in the E, and some distinct Nimbi, the elevated crowns of which continued to reflect the light for 30 minutes after sunset. 28. A wet mist a. m., very little wind, the vane, which stood to N, turning to SE: sunshine, with Cumulus at noon: large Cirri p. m., which were permanent. 29. Rainy appearances in the sky a. m.,

soon followed by a shower, which came over from SW: much Cirrostratus followed, with more rain. 30. Clear a. m.: wind NW: p.m. a veil of Cirrostratus advancing from W, completely obscured the sky: in the night a beating rain from the southward.

Tenth Mo. 1. As yesterday, a. m.: showers, with rainbow, p.m.: rain by night. 2. Misty morning: much dew: Cumulostratus, and a few drops: luminous twilight. 3. Hoar frost: misty air: Cumulus, capped with a delicate double sheet of Cirrostratus: Cirrocumulus and inosculation followed. 4. Cirrostratus in a close veil most of the day. 5. Misty morning: then large Cirri, arranged from SE to NW, and passing to Cirrocumulus, &c.: rain at night. 6. Wet morning: fair p. m. 7. Hoar frost: slight Stratus: a serene day: much dewy haze at sunset, coloured red, first in the E, then in the W above an orange tint. 8. Cloudy a. m. 14. A lunar halo of moderate diameter, which, disappearing, gave place to a portion of a very large one. 15. Rain: the wind fresh at night from SSW. 16. Cumulus a. m.: fine day: a number of swallows, which re-appeared at the end of last month, have kept about our neighbourhood to the present time. 17. Large Cirri, passing to Cirrostratus: a little rain p. m.: Nimbi. 18. Cirrostrati a. m., with obscurity gradually increasing: wet p. m.: much wind, evening. 19. Coloured sunrise: calm, overcast a. m.: then windy, with driving showers, the sky filled with cloud: a tempestuous night. 20. Coloured sunrise, and much wind: a few drops of rain cloudy night. 21. Clear a. m.: then Cumulus in a very blue sky, passing to Cumulostratus, which, with some beds of Cirrus above, was finely coloured at sunset: I suspected thunder and rain far to the S this afternoon. 22. Misty: much dew: Cirrostratus, Cumulostratus, Cirrus. 23. Maximum of temperature at nine this morning: little dew: cloudy: windy: rain. 24. Misty sunrise a. m., with radii through broken clouds: a Nimbus in SW: rain: about sunset radii again, followed by many distinct Nimbi.

RESULTS.

Winds chiefly from the S and W.

Barometer: Greatest height

Least.....

Mean of the period

Thermometer: Greatest height.

Least....

Mean of the period.

Mean of the hygrometer

.30.22 in.

29.25 in.

29.747 in.

66°

33°

....

.50-79°

74°

Evaporation (at the Laboratory)........ 2·12 in.

Rain....

2.92 in.

NOTES.-Tenth Mo. 25. Lightning to the N and W last evening. 27. The wind changed to NE this morning: Cumulostratus, with inosculation, a. m.: wet p. m. 28. wet a. m.: fair p. m.: rain again at night windy. 22. A brisk gale at NE, continued through the day and night a bank of Cumulostratus was visible in the morning in the S, from which quarter Cumuli were propagated northwards, changing the state of the superior clouds as they advanced: some Cirri in long lines above the whole were not affected: a solar halo appeared from one to 2 p. m., and the sky was turbid beneath the sun. 30. Completely overcast a. m.: windy, drizzling at intervals. 31. Cirrostratus tending to Cirrocumulus, a. m., beneath large Cirri pointing NE and SW: fair.