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 with frequent variations from all points of the compass. During the hot season, the winds are frequently remarked to follow the progress of the sun; being found at north-east in the morning, and, shifting round, die away in the evening at South S. West. The summer evenings are generally still until between eight and nine o'clock, when a fine cool zephyr from the west or south-west sets in. The months of June and July compose the hottest part of the year. Daily refreshing showers of rain begin and continue throughout August, which diminish the excessive degree of heat that otherwise would prevail at this season. The weather continues showery through September, it settles fair, and there is yearly, almost without exception, six or seven weeks of the most delightful season imaginable.

Pluviometrical registers prove, that our greatest fall of rain is in April, September, July, May, and February; and in point of quantity in each month nearly in the order they have been enumerated. The quantity which falls in a whole year, is somewhere about thirty-five inches.