A Meteorological Account of the Weather in Philadelphia: From January 1, 1790, to January 1, 1847, Including Fifty-seven Years; with an Appendix...Lindsay & Blakiston, 1847 - 300 páginas |
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atmosphere changed to east changed to north changed to north-east changed to south-west chilly cloudy cold weather commenced and continued considerable rain fell continued cool days ensued days the mercury eight days fell on five five days foggy mornings four inches freezing point frosty nights growing weather half inches inches of rain inches of snow intensely cold less rain fell little rain fell little snow fell medium temperature mercury ranged mercury rose mercury sunk mid-day mild and pleasant month closed month commenced month was 28 north-west wind overcast Philadelphia pleasant days pleasant weather remainder rose to 90 sleighing snow storms south-east sunrise three days three inches three quarter inches thunder gust thunder shower variable Vegetation looked vessels vicinity warm and pleasant warm days weather ensued weather followed week westerly wind whole month wind changed wind southed wind then changed wind wested winds prevailed winter yellow fever zero
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Página 4 - Union, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE.
Página 269 - ... varieties of weather in about the same proportions. Diaries of observant men running back to 1700 show that almost any kind of memory could be founded on fact, that the same violent changes in temperature, the same deep snows and unseasonable seasons that we endure to-day were noticed then. To quote : " The whole winter of 1780 was intensely cold. The Delaware was closed from the 1st of December to the 14th of March. The ice was from two to three feet thick.
Página 279 - THE site of Philadelphia seems to have been called Coaquanock by the Delaware Indians, who occupied it before the white men. The Swedes were its first permanent settlers. Three sons of a person of that nation called Sven, (subsequently known as Swansons,) held the ground on which the lower part of the city stands, by deed from the British Governor of New York, dated in 1664. Penn's grant of the provinces was obtained early in 1681, and the first settlers under it arrived in August of that year, in...
Página 281 - The same year Pennsylvania Hospital was founded, chiefly by the exertions of Dr. Franklin, the population of the city then being about 14,000. In 1760, the population was 18,000, and in 1770, 28,000. In the month of September, 1774, the first continental Congress met in Carpenters
Página 282 - ... inhabitants from the city. In 1794, Southwark was incorporated, and the turnpike to Lancaster completed. In 1799, water from the Schuylkill was introduced into the city by steam, and distributed in pipes from Centre Square, now called Penn's Square. In the year 1800, the population was 63,900. In 1803, the Northern Liberties were incorporated. In 1805, the Permanent Bridge was completed across the Schuylkill. In 1809, the Phoenix, the first of Fulton's steamboats, was placed on the Delaware,...
Página 279 - ... resolutions in which they declared the rights of the States to judge how far the National Government had a right to go. At the close of 1799 the Nation was called upon to mourn the loss of the illustrious Washington, who died at Mt. Vernon on the 14th of December, 1799. In the summer of 1800 the seat of the government of the United States was removed from Philadelphia to the new city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. In conversation President Adams remarked with some profanity concerning...
Página 277 - ... stipulated that British creditors should be allowed to recover their debts in the United States ; that congress should recommend to the several states the restoration of the estates of real British subjects which had been confiscated during the war ; and that no further confiscations should be made. On the 19th of April, 1783, the day which completed the eighth year of the war, the cessation of hostilities with Great Britain was, by order of General Washington, proclaimed in the American camp....
Página 134 - The medium or average temperature of this month was only 68°, and it was a month of melancholy forebodings, as during every previous month since the year commenced, there were not only heavy frosts, but ice, so that very few vegetables came to perfection. It seemed as if the sun had lost his warm and cheering influences.
Página 116 - The medium temperature of this month was only 64, and it was the coldest month of June we ever remember ; there were not only severe frosts on several mornings, but on one morning there was said to be ice. Every green herb was killed, and vegetables of every description very much injured.