V. TABLE AND NOTICES RELATING TO SAVANNAH, GEO. Table abstracted from Mr. A. G. Oemler's Tables for the The last two years have been remarkable for the small quantity of rain which has fallen, and the steady equable movements of the Thermometer. There has been no rainy month since August, 1836, and rain has very seldom fallen in sufficient quantity to run in the funnel of the rain gauge on two successive days. The mean temperature for the hottest and coldest months at 8 A. M., 2 P. M., and 6 P. M. differed thus: VI. METEOROLOGICAL TABLES FOR KEY WEST. 1. Table showing the Temperature in 1837, at Key West, Florida, the most southern Town in the United States. (Lat. 24° 33′ 30′′ N. Long. 81° 52' 30" W. Jan. Feb. March, April, May, June, July, Sept, Oct. Nov. Dec. 3 25 7.963 79.00 50.00 66.223 29.00 17.25 2.00 7.862 80.00 52.00 68.799 28.00 14.25 1.25 8.884 81.00 58.50 70.771 22.50 13.50 83.50 62.50 73.126 21.00 11.75 84.00 68.50 77.904 15-50 11.50 88.00 74.75 81,355 13.25 10.00 88.00 68.00 82.355 20.00 10.75 August, 87.00 72.00 82.009 15.00 13.50 86.00 73.00 81-000 13.00 11.00 86 00 61.75 77.850 24.25 11.00 81.25 57.75 76.129 23 50 78.75 54.25 70.296 24.50 11.25 1.00 5.974 11.75 4.00 6.330 1.50 5.552 2 Table showing the prevalence of different Winds at Key West, from The observations were made in the morning and afternoon of each day as to the prevailing Wind. The figures in the table represent the mean number of days that each wind prevailed in each month, and on the result of the addition of half days. Winds from points of the compass not represented in the table, are inserted in the columns to which they approximate the nearest. VII. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR INDIAN KEY, Florida, (Lat. 24° 48′ N. Long. 80° 55′ W.) for the Years 1836, and 1837; abstracted from the Observations of Charles Howe, Esq., accompanying the Report of the Committee (of Congress) on Agriculture, on the Memorial of Dr. Henry Perrine, in relation to the Culture of Tropical Plants in the United States. mometer did not fall but five times below 80 at sunrise, and not once lower than 77. In 1837; greatest cold (Jan. 3) 50; greatest heat, (June 21; July 4, 5, 6, 24, 25, 26; Aug. 21,) 90 ; — annual range, 40. VIII. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR SANTA CRUZ, An Island in the West Indies; abstracted from the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, made at 6 o'clock, A. M., 9 A. M., 12, 3 P. M., 6 P. M., and 9 P. M.; from Dec. 7, 1836 to April 30, 1837. IX. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR CHARLOTTES VILLE, VA., For One Year, from July 1st, 1837, to July 1st, 1838; from two daily Observations, taken at Sunrise, and 2 P. M. At the same place, the mean heat of July, 1838, was 77.5 (similar observations); and the highest degree observed was (July 28th, 1838) 99.5. X. ANNUAL QUANTITY OF RAIN. [From "Poulson's American Daily Advertiser."] Statement of the Quantity of Rain which has fallen in each Year, from 1810 to 1837, inclusive; the first 14 years by the gauge of P. Legoux, at Spring Mill, (near Philadelphia,) and the following 14 years by that kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. The whole quantity of rain which fell in the above 28 years was 1,035,742 inches, which gives an annual average of 36,991 inches. The rain in each month of 1837, was as follows: XI. FLOWERING OF FRUIT-TREES. The time of Apple Trees being in full blossom in Mansfield, Bristol County, Mass., in each year for 40 years, from 1798 to 1837, inclusive, according to a statement of Mr. Isaac Stearns, Jr., communicated to the "New England Farmer." Av. 1st 10 Yrs. 21 2d 10 Years, 23 3d 10 Years, 20 4th 10 Years, 20 The average time of the whole 40 years the 21st of May. The earliest season of the forty years was that of 1830; the latest, that of 1812. "The times when the preceding notices were taken, were when the blossoms were out at the fullest, and the trees appeared the whitest." —They must therefore have begun to blossom several days earlier. The spring of 1838 was uncommonly backward. Apple trees began to blossom, in Cambridge, Mass., on the 22d of May, were in fullest blossom from the 27th to the 31st of May, and were out of blossom about the 9th of June. |