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EDITOR'S NOTE..

The author of the account of the controversy between Dr. Priestley; Dr. Horsely, &c. is desirous of expressing his obligations to Rev. Mr. Cary of Boston, for the loan of Barnard's Letter to Dr. Priestley, and of a new work of Mr. Belsham, (which Mr. Cary had just received from that gentleman, containing a Brief review of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and Dr. Horsely.

ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE CLIMATE AT CAMBRIDGE,

NEW ENGLAND.

SOME remarkable phenomena in the weather, which have occurred during the last year, have led to an examination of the state of the thermometer for the last twenty two years. The following tables exhibit the result. They were deduced from a regular course of observations made by the late President Webber, from January 1790, to June 1807, and continued from that time to the present by Professor Farrar. The observations from the commencement to August 1795 were made with a mercurial thermometer attached to Reaumur's scale placed about four feet from the ground, under cover, but exposed to a free air, and sufficiently protected from any undue reflection of heat, as well as from the direct rays of the sun. From August 1795, to July 1803, Fahrenheit's thermometer, made by Champney, was used, placed abroad in the open air, about eleven feet from the ground. From July 1803, to the present time, a standard thermometer made by Jones was employed, and in the situation last mentioned. The observations with Reau nur's thermometer are reduced to Fahrenheit's scale, for the purpose of a more ready comparison. The first table gives the greatest and the least elevation of the mercury at three different hours of the day, viz. at seven o'clock a. M. at two, P. M. and at nine in the evening, for the several seasons during the above period of twenty two years. The three first columns on the right give the extremes for the year, and the whole range of the thermometer. The second table exhibits the means for the several seasons of all the observations taken at the hours above mentioned. The first of the five last columns on the right represents the mean of all the winter observations, the second the mean of all the spring observations, the third the mean of all the summer observations, the fourth the mean of all the autumn observations, and the last the mean for the year. The footings of these columns being the means of all the means before found, may be considered as a determination of the temperature of

the seasons in this climate, with which, upon comparing the observations of any particular year or season past or to come,

it

may be seen whether it be colder or warmer, and how much. thus it is found that the last winter was at a mean about two degrees, and the last spring about four degrees colder than common. It appears also that the thermometer rose higher the last summer than it has done before for twenty two years past. On the fourth of July at two o'clock, P. M. it stood at 101°. On the fifth, it was stationary at 00° for a considerable part of the afternoon, the highest point it reached was 100°. It stood at 99° at six P. M. On the twentieth of August it rose to 97° and remained at 81° at midnight. On the twenty first it rose to 95° by eleven o'clock A. M. and would probably have risen to 103° or 104° by two or three A. M. judging from the usual variation in that interval, had not the wind shifted to the eastward. A thermometer in the sun rose to 123°. Several thermometers were placed on the north side of buildings and in other situations, that were thought to give the fairest specimen of the temperature of the air. They all agreed very nearly with the thermometer statedly used in the situation where the observations are regularly made. The bulb of this thermometer when standing at 100° in the shade was embraced by the hand and put into the mouth, upon which it sunk 2o. On being exposed to the open air it soon rose again to 100° after the moisture had evaporated. In an atmosphere thus heated a person might literally keep out the heat by thick warm clothing.

The last winter was no less remarkable for the opposite extreme of weather. Short intervals of more intense cold are not very unfrequent as may be seen by Table I. But such a degree of cold for so many days in succession is not to be found in any records of the thermometer in this place to which the writer has access. From the sixteenth to the twenty-second of January the mean state of the thermometer was about 13° above zero. The coldest of these days was the eighteenth, when the thermometer stood at 6°, 2°, and 94°, at the stated hours of observation, below zero, giving at a mean nearly 6o