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] Kawa Kawa, to contribute in a small degree to the beginning of an inquiry which, if carried out for a few years, must prove of great advantage to the settlers in the management and improvement of their farms; for every one must be aware how intimately connected the various states of the atmosphere, and the consequent changes of weather, are with all the more important operations of the agriculturist.

The following tables are founded on observations of the temperature of the air and surface of the sea, the height of the barometer, the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather recorded every hour during the whole period, and are divided into equal intervals of about thirty days each, for the convenience of reference as well as of comparison with similar observations made in England, by which our emigrants will more readily perceive the change of climate they will have to make allowance for in all their pastoral and agricultural proceedings in their newly-adopted country.

The first table comprises the result of each day's observation between the 19th of August and the 17th of September; the mean of which corresponds more nearly with the 2nd of September, which may be considered equal to March of the northern hemisphere, and therefore, according to the most natural division of the seasons, is the first month of Spring. The mean temperature of the atmosphere is 53º.9, and the range of temperature during the period was 66º to 39º. In