CLIMATE OF LONDON,

DEDUCED FROM

Meteorological Observations,

MADE IN THE METROPOLIS,

AND AT

VARIOUS PLACES AROUND IT.

BY LUKE HOWARD, GENT.

CITIZEN OF LONDON; HONORARY CITIZEN OF MAGDEBURG; FELLOW
OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, AND HONORARY ASSOCIATE OF THE
SOCIETIES OF ARTS OF HAMBURGH AND LEIFSIC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

A SECOND, MUCH ENLARGED AND IMPROVED EDITION,

IN WHICH THE

OBSERVATIONS ARE CONTINUED TO THE YEAR MDCCCXXX:

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD AND COPPER.

Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves!

VOL. I.

Containing an Introduction, with the necessary Descriptions of Instruments,
and Definitions of terms used;-A Series of Dissertations on the several parts
of the Subject ;-A Summary of the Phenomena of the Climate ;-General Tables
of Results, and a copious Index.

LONDON:

HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET;

J. AND A. ARCH, CORNHILL; LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER ROW;
HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; S. HIGHLEY, FLEET-STREET;
R. HUNTER, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1833.

44.6.

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composed, men will find leisure and inclination to attend to things once the agreeable and improving recreation of public characters at their homes-to Science and the Arts of Civilized life.

I had feared that a harsh unsocial feeling, the result of Religious and Civil discord, had come over us; in which all that was ingenuous, all that served to soften and refine our manners, was in danger to be lost—a prospect for every friend of his country to shudder at! But some late evidences of an increased attention to these pursuits, and of solicitude to promote them, induce me to hope that I have been mistaken; and that even for the coming generation I shall not have written in vain. That men will yet be found, not so wholly sunk in the vortex of business and strife, as not to pay some regard to that wonderful system of cause and effect in nature, which is ever in play around them.

The work I have now the privilege of presenting, under your patronage, to my Fellow Citizens, is calculated to inform them, on the ground of observation and fair induction, (apart from Mathematical dreams and fine spun theories,) of what they may desire to know of the Climate and Seasons of the district in which they dwell. It will be found enriched, besides, with an abundance of facts drawn from authentic sources, respecting the phenomena of other climes. It may be used, either as a book of reference, or (by those who possess but a moderate share of previous scientific information) as a Lecture on the Science of Meteorology, of which it

treats.