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Meps, pletes, charts, stc. may be filmed at different reduction retios. Those too ierge to be entirely included in one exposure ere filmed beginning in the upper left hend corner, left to right end top to bottom, es meny fremes os required. The following diegrams illustrete the method: Les certes, pionches, tablaeux, etc., peuvent Atre filmAs k dss teux de rAduction dIffArents. Lorsque le document est trop grend pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est f iimA A pertir de i'engle supArieur gauche, de geuche A droite, et de heut en bas, en prenant ie nombre d'imeges nAcesseire. Les diegremmes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 |[p Mestmln^ier, iriiish d^olumbm. -♦•■^♦- ABSTRACT OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, TAKEN AT THB ROYAL ENOINEEB CAHP, During the Year 1862, by order of Col. R. C. Moody, R. E., Commanding the Troops. LATITUDB, 40° 12' 47" 6 N . IjONOITUDB, 122° 63' 10" W. INCHES. The highest reading of the Barometer, corrected for temperature, was 30.517 The mean height do. do. do., at 9.30. a.m. 29.983 Do. do. do. do. do., at 3.30. p.m. 29.9G3 The lowest .do. do. do. Maximum. temperature in sun's rays (black bulb,) Maximum temperature of Air, in shade Do. do. do Do. do. do Mean temperature of Air, in shade Do, do do. Minimum temperature of Air, in shade Do. do. do. Miniuium temperature on the Grass (Greatest amount of Humidity Mean do. do Do. do. do Least 9th Feb. •••«•• do. do. 29.071 DEGREES. 22nd Jan. bulb,) 104.0 29th Aug. 88.5 do. 9.30. A.M 73.9 23rd July. 3.30. P.M 86.0 28th Aug. 9.30. A.M 46.8 3.30. P.M 51.2 9.30. A.M 2.0 below zci-o, 1 5fh Jan 3.30. P.M 6.0 15 th Jan. 15.0 below zero, 16 th Jan 1.000 9.30 A.M 8^2 8.30 P.M 772 320 3rd Jan. The cistern c^the Barometer is about bifeet above the level of the Sea. All the Observations were made at 9 30. a.m. and 3.30. p.m. daili/ throughout the year. There were slight froata nearly every night in the month of April, and once in May (16th ;) they did not r- .ommence imtil the 9th of October. The severe frosts of January, and Febi-uary, have been unknown lor many years. Thunder and Lightning occurred on the 24th May, 24th July, and 22nd, 29th, and 30th of August. Tableshewingthedepthofrain, the number of days on which it fell, the mean humidity (9. 30. a.m. and 3.30. p. M.) mean temj>eruture of the air in shade, and the lowest temperature on the grass in each month. tiiekmometbr, INCHES. DATS. HUMIDITY. 9. 30. A.M 3. 30. P.M. SUN. on GRASS, January 3.480 9 .855 19.0 23.0 15,0 below zero FeUrimry 5,727 8 .815 30.3 34.2 2.0 March 5.830 17 .862 380 41.7 23.0 April 2.345 14 .767 45.5 51 .3 26.0 May 3.415 13 .718 57.1 62.1 31.5 June 2.760 10 .712 62.7 67.1 40.0 July 2.709 12 .713 63.2 67.7 44.0 August 2.930 8 .787 63.5 69.8 43.0 September .... 1 .625 9 .751 58.4 62.7 33.5 Octol)cr 4.605 10 .869 49.3 52.9 sao November .... 4.050 8 .938 37.9 41.7 W.0 December .... 7.990 17 .948 36.7 39.7 IS.S ToTAt ..47.466 135 iiriMltlBltWi ''■<i*M Rain fell on 8 days when the wind was South, 4— S.W., 3— W., 5— N.W., 8— N.E., 43— E., 26— S.K. and 38 when calm. The greatest fall of rain in 24 hoiira measured 2.260 inches, and was on the 20th March. The average fall for every day of the year was 0.130 inches, and for each wet day it was 0.352. amoimt of Ozone this year was very small, its mean daily number would be represented by 8 on lie, and it seldom exceeded 6, During the greater part of October, November, and December, there The the scale, ^ „ . was little indication of its presence. Tn November and the early part of December there were heavy logs, during which there was no Ozone. Comparison of mean results for three Years. Tears. Bain Mean Tc'inperiituro. MIn. on OrosH lIuDitJity If ean height of Baromett-r. I.\CIIES. Days. 9.30. A. H. 3.30. p.M 54.0 52.2 61.2 9.30.A.M 3, 30. P. 11 9.30. A.M. 3.30. P.M. IKfil 1862 54.420 B0.4.S5 47.4ti« l.'il 1«4 135 49.U 48.8 46.8 15,5 10.0 IS.Olioiowz. .764 .842 .786 .864 .772 29.942 29.943 29.983 29.U1J 29.889 29.963 McJins. r>4.i2t 15) 48.6 62.5 .818 .797 29.956 29.924 Rain was more oqually distributed throughout all the months this year than in 1860 or 1861, In the winter month.s, January to March, and October to December, 31.G82 inches of rain fell in 18G2, 41.230 in 18GJ , and 40.580 inches in 18G0. In the remaining months 15.785 inches fell in 1862, 19.255 in 18G1 and 13.834 in 18G0. The prevailing direction of the wind during rain in each year was E. and S.E. The absolute limiting nights of frost in the three years were nearly the same. The Eraser River at New Westminster, Year. Highest level. lowest level Diir. of levol Remarks. INIKJ 18(11 1862 12tli .Imiu Sth June 14th Juno 4th M:irch. 17th Miircli 19th April 10.5 Kett 9.5 Keet 10.5 Feet From 22n(l May tu 12 Auk. Hhi|i;i did not swing to the fluud tide. " 19th May to lOth Auk. I>o. (io. " Igt May to 2nd Scpteinber, Do. do* Ice appeard on the 1st of January 18G2, and the river at New Westminster wasunnavigable on the 4tii, it was completely frozen over on the flth, and the Ice attained a thickness of 13 inches in the channel opposite the R. E. Camp, on the 12th of February. Sleighs were running from Langley, to several miles below New Westiniii.ster, and persons walked from Hope to the latter place,a distance of 80 miles >n the ice, at fhe end of January. Lake Ilarri.son and the other Lakes were liozen. Navigation from New Westminster was open to the mouth of the river on the 11th of March, and from Yale on the 12th April. Again on the 5th December, there was Ice in the River at New Westmin.ster for one day. In January, 18G1 there wa.s ice at New Westminster, but the Navigation to the mouth of the River was not jmiieded. In 1 860 there w as no Ice. The Observations were taken by 2nd Coi-poral P. J. Leech, and Lance Corporal J. Conroy, R. E. R. M. PARSONS, Captain R. E rriiitcd nt tlic Koyal Eiiy;iiiv.cr Pi-cs?, New Westminster, BritiBli Columbia. -S.E. tcragu