from a diffused Cirrostratus, and cloudy above. Water from a well, which might be 10° warmer than the air, emitted a visible steam. 10. Cloudy dripping at intervals. 11. The same: dark Nimbi passed in the S, the wind being W p. m. 12. Misty a. m.: cloudy: wind and showers. 13. A wet windy morning, succeeded by a very fine day: Cumulus, with Cirrus. 14. A very moist Cirrostratus a. m.; then fine, with various clouds: a little misty rain at night. 15. Much dew the rain kept off till evening. 16. Windy: wet: a lunar corona. 17. Morning clear, with dew: then Cumulus, which becoming dense inosculated with the clouds above and with the smoke: a little rain p. m.: lunar corona. 18. Slight hoar frost: haze, passing to Cirrus and Cirrostratus. 19. Heavy Cumulostrati through the day: much wind. 20. Windy: wet: lunar halo at night. 21, 22. Cumulostratus: windy. 23. Fine. 24. Ramified Cirrostratus, indicating wind, which followed. 25. Blustering wind, with Cumulostratus, and strong evaporation: a little rain notwithstanding. 26. Showers, which laid the dust: a sudden clearing in the W at sunset. 27. Very white frost a fine day out of the smoke. 28. Hoar frost, and a frozen mist: a serene day.

Third Mo. 1. Hoar frost: Cirrus in a fine elevated veil, passing to Cirrostratus, and exhibiting between ten and eleven a solar halo: a very fine day, the pollution of the smoke excepted.

RESULTS.

Winds Variable, but for the most part Southerly.

Barometer: Greatest height....

.30.47 in.

.29.28 in.

..29.785 in.

57°

25°

An American paper contains an account of an eruption of the volcano of Albay, on the 1st of February, 1815. This volcanic mountain is situated in the province of Camarines, on the southern part of the island of Lucon, or Luconia, one of the Phillippine Isles in the Indian Ocean. Five populous towns were entirely destroyed by the eruption; more than 1200 of the inhabitants perished amidst the ruins; and the 20,000 who survived the awful catastrophe were stripped of their possessions, and reduced to beggary.

(PUB. LEDGER).

NOTES.-Third Mo. 2. Small rain at intervals. 3. Misty morning: fine day. 4, 5. Cumulostratus. 6. Fine day: Cirri appeared, much elevated, and coloured at sunset. 7. Fine morning: cloudy and windy, with some rain p. m.: night very stormy. 8. Windy, wet a. m.: showers by inosculation in the evening. 9. Hoar frost a. m.: turbid sky: rain: fair p. m. 10. Snow early, after which various modifications of cloud, ending in showers of rain and snow p. m. 11. Hoar frost: Cirrostratus and Cumulostratus: Nimbi, with large hail p. m. 12. Dull misty day: at night very stormy, with rain. 13. Cloudy a. m., with a gale at SW, and rain at intervals: several dense Nimbi, thunder,

hail, and hard rain p. m.: much wind with distant lightning, at night. 14. Cirrostratus and haze: then Cirri, passing to dense Nimbi: gusts of wind, hail, and rain. 15. The barometer has risen, with an almost uniform motion, about an inch and a quarter in 36 hours; yet the air has not become clear: it should be observed, that there had been much previous depression: a wet forenoon, with a breeze at E: Cir. rostratus p. m.: at night much wind. 16. High wind at SW, with Cumulostratus a. m.: fair and pleasant. 17. Much dew a. m.: Cirrostratus with Cirrocumulus: the light clouds after sunset beautifully tinted with lake and purple. 18. After a few drops, the Cumulostratus prevailed, followed by rain in the night. 19. Some rain a. m.: then Cumulostratus: and at evening Cirrostratus, with a lunar corona. 20. Dew a. m.: a light veil of Cirrostratus: at evening, the clouds passed to the N. 21. Cumulus, beneath Nimbiform Cirrus, both elevated: about 5 p. m. during the approach of a squall, the wind was very noisy among the branches (now covered with opening buds), producing an almost vocal modulation of sound: as soon as the trees became wet, this was exchanged for the usual hoarse noise, resembling that of the sea shore. The night was boisterous. 22. Much wind: showers: two strata of cloud: borne very high, as for some days past. 23. Heavy squalls, with some hail in the showers: a singular combination of clouds in the E, p. m.: it was a Nimbus, with Cumuli adhering and entering at the flanks, while a very lofty columnar Cumulus shot up through the midst of the crown, and this again was capped with a small Cirrostratus. 24. Various clouds: squally p. m. 25. The same: a brisk evaporation: at sunset Cumulus at a considerable height inosculated with Cirrus above, after which two distinct Nimbi in the S, which went away eastward. 26. Driving showers: at evening a lunar corona, followed by much wind and rain at intervals. 27. Stormy: showers. 28. Fair. 29. Large Cirri, which passed chiefly to the Cirrocumulus p. m. 30. Misty a. m.: overcast p.m.: little wind. 31. A very fine day: large Cirri formed alone at a considerable elevation, and passed in the evening to the NW: much dew followed.

NOTES.-Fourth Mo. 1. A summer-like day, with a breeze of wind: Cirrus formed about noon, and continued after sunset, passing to Cirrostratus: some rain followed. 2. Overcast a. m., apparently with Cirrostratus from Cirrus: during the middle of the day this gave place to Cumulostratus. 3. Overcast, calm, with dew on the grass a. m.: showers followed: after which Cumulus and Cirrus. 4. Much dew: Cirrus, followed by Cirrostratus: a few large drops about sunset. 5. Much dew: Cirrus. 6. The same: low Cumuli prevailed afterwards, some of them capped with Cirrostrati: then a shallow bed of Cumulostratus, ending at sunset in Cirrostratus: the evening twi light opake, dewy, and suffused with red. 8. Cumulus beneath

Cirrocumulus: a strong breeze: a mixture of Cirrostratus and Cirrus gave the clouds an appearance of active electricity; but the whole ended in Cirrostratus. 9. A confused mixture of the modifications, as yesterday, with the addition of haze: some drops by 10 a.m., and a shower p.m. 10. Heavy showers a. m.: cloudy p. m. 11. Wind SW a. m.: the clouds mingled with the smoke of the city, came back from the E at sunset. 12. a. m. The clouds gathered pêle mêle, the Cumulus being capped with Cirrostratus: p.m. the Nimbus appeared, aad after some distant thunder to SW we had a shower. 13. Cirrus, Cirrocumulus a. m.: much dew, the large drops of which sparkled in the sun with the prismatic colours: various modifications of cloud followed: about 1 p.m. it thundered N: then nearer, with lightning, S: the wind shifting to that point, we had a heavy shower from W, with hail: wind and rain at night. 14. Cloudy, windy, a. m.: Cumulostratus: a little snow: swallows skimming the meadows. 15. Cumulus, succeeded by Cumulostratus: the wind moderate. 16. The same : there were traces of hoar frost this morning. 17. Hoar frost: Cumulostratus: at night Cirrostratus, and a lunar corona. 18. a. m. A few drops during the union of some clouds, which became Cumulostratus. 19. Loose Cumulus a. m.: at night Cirrus, and afterwards a very large white lunar halo. 20. Overcast, dripping: a hail shower p. m.: at night a lunar halo, very small, the prismatic ring touching a corona within. 21. Much cloud and wind: wet forenoon and night: the greatest depression of the barometer that has occurred in the present year. 22, 23. Much cloud, windy: rain at intervals. 24. Windy: cloudy: rain a. m., with a little hail: in the evening Cumuli dispersed rapidly, with Nimbi and Cirrostrati in the horizon. 25. Various clouds, ending in rain, of which, however, very little till night. 26, 27.Windy, variable: some dripping. 28. A little rain early: then Cumulostratus. 29. Cumulostratus: strong breeze: dripping: the Cirrocumulus appeared, transiently, as for several days past: a Stratus at night. 30. Cir rocumulus, which passed to Cirrostratus: p. m. (upon the wind becoming SE) rain.

RESULTS.

Winds Variable, but for the most part Northerly.

Barometer: Greatest height.

.30.25 in.