at NE: in the night a southerly gale, with rain. 12. Showers. 13. Misty small rain: windy. 14. a. m. Cirrostratus: gloomy: fair day, with clouds: windy night, with rain. 15. Windy night. 16. Windy: Cumulus beneath linear Cirrus, passing to Cirrostratus. 17. Cloudy: some rain morning and evening. 18. Dripping at intervals: windy. 19. a. m. calm: the dew drops frozen clear on the grass: a very fine day ensued, with Cumuli, and a breeze: windy night. 20. Much wind at S this evening. 21. Fleecy Cumuli beneath a hazy sky, with the lighter modifications: inosculation and Nimbi followed, with rain, sleet, and snow. 22. Fair: sun and clouds. 23. Windy: shower at night. 24. A bright haze at sun-rise and sun-set. 25. Fine day: some Cirrostrati assumed an arrangement not very frequent, of discs piled obliquely on each other. 26. Cumulus, capped with Cirrostratus: lunar corona. 27. After a gale through the night, rain before 9 a. m.: Nimbi, with hail, p. m.: at night large Cirri, very conspicuous by moonlight, stretching SE and NW. 28. Fair, save a light shower.

Third Mo. 1. Fair: windy. 2. A trace of solar halo about nine, in some Cirri, which soon subsiding went off with the wind to SE, grouping into forms like the crown of the Nimbus: Cumulostrati succeeded, which, p. m. gave place again to Cirrose obscuration, with a southerly gale and showers at night. 3 a. m. Overcast: p. m. steady rain at sun-set a hazy sky, and much vapour: a highly rarefied Cumulostratus in the SE: a hard gale, with rain, at night. 4. Pale sky, a. m.: after which passing Nimbi and a little hail: calm night. 5. Hoar frost: fair, with Cumulus and Cirrus: evening, very large Nimbi: shooting stars: wind. 6. Wet morning: then fair, with various clouds: night frosty. 7. Pretty thick ice: fair day: rain at night. 8. Windy: snow in flakes about 1 inch diameter: sleet and rain: at noon large Cumuli in the N, passing to Cumulostrati, the sky above them being blue to 15° of the cyanometer: about two, p. m. a sudden shower of hail from a dense lofty Nimbus: the balls were opaque, in the form of a cone with a rounded base about inch diam., and composed entirely of stria meeting at the apex of the cone: we have had similar hail repeatedly of late: frost (after rain) at night. 9. The lighter modifications prevailed, a. m. the Cirri pointing to NW: after these, lofty Nimbi formed in the midst of groups of Cumulus, letting fall light showers: the night was clear frost.

Mean of the Hygrometer 64°: its drier extreme several times

On the 2d and 3d of Third month there were violent thunder-storms to the W and S, the latter of which came as near fo us as Tunbridge,, but neither of them was much perceived here, save in the evident electric state of the clouds on the latter evening.

Amsterdam, Feb. 27.-It has blown hard for several days past, but in the night of the 25th it became a perfect hurricane: yesterday it abated, and is now moderate weather.

THUNDER STORMS.

During the night between the 26th and 27th of February, there was a hurricane. at Glasgow, accompanied with rain, hail, thunder, and lightning. The wind was extremely violent, the thunder awfully loud, and the deep red flashes of lightning cast a glare during the whole night. The hail stones broke the windows in all directions.

A storm, of singular awfulness, raged over the city of Dublin, the whole of Thursday morning last, (February 27th,) accompanied with loud peals of thunder, frequent and vivid lightnings, and the heaviest showers of hail and rain. Alternate intervals of calm succeeded every blast of the tempest, which was at its height at four o'clock.

AURORA BOREALIS.

Edinburgh, March 6.- A little past eight o'clock, p. m. a beautiful Aurore Porealis nearly resembling that which appeared in September last, was distinctly visible here for a considerable time. A similar beautiful arch of bright light stretched across the heavens. It sprung from a point nearly ENE, and, passing the zenith, terminated in the opposite point of the horizon. Its eastern limb was the brightest and best defined. The horizon in almost every point was obscured by dark broken clouds, which rendered both its beginning and termination less distinct than the last.

Sunderland. On the 3th March, about seven in the evening, during a strong gale from the NW, which had continued five days, was observed here a most beautiful Aurora Borealis. It began in single bright streamers in the N, and NW, which gradually increasing, covered a large space of the hemisphere, and rushed about with amazing velocity and a fine tremulous motion.-About eleven o'clock, part of the streamers appeared as if projected from a centre south of the zenith, and looked like the pillars of an immense amphitheatre, presenting the most brilliant spectacle that can be conceived, and seeming to be in a lower region of the atmosphere and to descend and ascend in the air, for several minutes.—R. Pensey in Thomson's Annals, vol. 9, p. 250.

INUNDATIONS.

From the Mayne, March 7.-For some days past, the waters have risen in a terrible manner on both sides of the Rhine, and that river itself has reached an uncommon height. It is about the same as it was at the end of the year 1800. The Kinzig and the Schulter are, however, not quite so destructive as they were two months ago.

The alarm bell has frequently been sounded in the communes about Kehl, in order to collect people to strengthen the Rhine-dikes. Hitherto the danger has been averted; the bridge of boats at Kehl is still standing, and the communication between the two banks open: but from the left bank we have the most melancholy accounts. The rivers there have every where overflowed their banks. Great ravages have been caused about Strasburg by the Ill and Breusch. All the fields and gardens round Strasburg form one great lake. All the streets near the river are under water, and the communication kept up by boats. The Ill has done still greater damage about Schlettstadt. Several persons and a quantity of cattle have perished.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 12.

Genoa, March 15.-They say here-there has been no winter south of the Alps, this year. As we passed through France, we often saw the country inundated from the snow and rains, but chiefly the latter. In Piedmont, the dust was the only thing that troubled us.

In addition to such notices as the above of the swollen state of the rivers in some parts of Swabia, France, &c. the foreign papers detail a number of accidents by Avalanches in the Tyrol, the Grisons, and Swisserland. The reader will perceive that the occurrence of this kind of disaster is perfectly consistent with that of inundation. The same excess of snow and rain, which loosens these overwhelming masses from their bed, must also tend to overcharge the natural channels, in its escape through the lower country. Whether the slight earthquakes which, it appears, have been frequent of late on the Continent, may not also contribute to the production of avalanches, is a question for observers on the spot to decide.

THE SPRING IN FRANCE.

Paris, March 2.-The drivers of the little carriages for Versailles call out There is still one seat left for Versailles; come and see the spring at Versailles.' The crowd of curious persons going thither is very great. The fact, which gives occasion to this, is the fine sight presented by the trees in the great Park, which display a vegetation, such as is seen in the month of May. Several trees in the Park of Trianon are covered with new leaves; the hawthorns in the open air are loaded with flowers. May the hope, which this early spring gives us, not be destroyed by frosts in the month of May! The Chronicle of Bullinguer mentions, after a calamitous year, the summer of 1540. The fine weather and the heat lasted from the month of February to the 19th of September, and during all this period it rained but six times. At the end of May ripe cherries were eaten, and grapes in July; the 25th of June was the midst of the harvests; and at the beginning of September, the vintage was at its height. Bullinguer adds, that this year was equally remarkable for the extreme abundance of wine, corn, and all sorts of fruit.

Note. Subsequent events have shewn that the writer of this was a year too early in anticipating a parallel to the summer of 1540: it occurred in 1818!

STATE OF THE WINDS TO THE SOUTHWARD.

About 40 sail of outward-bound vessels are lying at the Motherbank, Spithead, and Stokesbay, waiting a fair wind to proceed on their respective voyages: many of them have received their Custom-house clearances ten weeks. Though we have had such a continuanee of westerly winds, yet it is stated by the master of a vessel from Teneriffe, that he experienced nothing but northerly and easterly winds on his voyage, until his arrival in Channel soundings. The Agricola, Captain Tabor, of and for New York, with passengers from Portsmouth, put into St. Helen's on Saturday, with the loss of her sails. She sailed 25 days since (having been previously detained there two months by contrary winds), and during that time she has never been able to get so far to the westward as Plymouth.-P.Ledger, Mar. 11.

NOTES.-Third Mo. 10. Fine, with Cumulostratus. 11. A mist, probably from the Thames, there having heen much Cirrostratus at sun-rise in the SE: cloudy, p. m. with a few drops. 12, a. m. Cirrostratus in flocks: at evening a slight shower, with wind. 13. Fair: overcast with Cumulostratus. 14. This morning at eight the wind sprang up at NE, a gentle breeze, which, being propagated upwards, carried a veil of Cirrostratus off to SW: in the evening the sun's disk was curiously disfigured by the intervention of Cirrostrati, with, vapour: after being divided, and afterwards crossed as by belts of this cloud, the lower portion came out much extended horizontally, while the part yet obscured became somewhat conical upwards. 15. a. m. Cirro

strulus: misty to SW, after which light breezes and general cloudiness. 16. Hoar frost: fair: wind SE a. m., NE p. m. 17. A dripping mist, after hoar frost: then Cumulus, and the wind S. 18. Hoar frost, misty morning, SE: clear day: p. m. the wind SW, a smart breeze: clouds after dark. 19. a. m. Wind SW: Cumulus, beneath Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus: p. m. windy at NW: Cumulostrati and Nimbi, with a little hail. 20. A gale at NNW, tending continually to go to N: a very scanty snow at intervals. 21. Very fine: Cumuli prevailed, which evaporated at sun-set: the roads quite dusty: wind tending to E, a smart breeze: night calm. 22. Hoar frost: hygr. noted at eight a. m.: very light breeze. 23. Hoar frost: fine day evening obscured by Cirrostratus, which descended from above. 24. Some drizzling rain this morning. 25. Hoar frost: rain: a hail shower: p. m. the wind NE. 26. a. m. Overcast with Cirrostratus: small rain, p. m. 27. Very fine day: wind a. m. NNE, with Cumulus and Cirrostratus. 28. Wind S, a. m. with Cirrostratus: drizzling rain. 29. Temp. 50° at nine, a. m.: windy at SW. 30. Very fine morning, with dew: Cumulus beneath Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus: a few drops of rain: a small yellow lunar halo: much wind in the night. 31. Windy: Cumulus beneath large Cirri: a lunar halo, white and of large diameter.

Fourth Mo. 1, 2. Light driving mists, followed by fine days. 3. Hoar frost: rose-coloured Cirri at sun-set. 5. Cloudy: a few drops: misty night. 6. Hoar frost: Cumulus, with Cirrocumulus: windy. 7. Windy at SW by night, with mist.

RESULTS.

Winds for the most part light and variable, but on the whole Northerly.

The sun

eye had

The change from the turbid Atlantic air, which had for many months been flowing over us, to a dry transparent medium, was, from the commencement of this period, strikingly obvious to the sense. assumed a splendour, and the moon a brilliancy, to which the been long unaccustomed, and distant objects seemed as it were restored to the landscape. The mean of the barometer is the highest that has occurred to me since the spring of 1813: the ten dry days about the commencement of the period were the first that had happened in strict succession for twelve months; and there has not fallen so little rain in any lunar period that I have registered since the beginning of 1810. The evaporation has doubtless been excessive, and I regret that I have kept no account of it: for the state of the hygrometer did not fully indicate the dryness of the air, on account of the misty mornings.

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