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FOOTNOTES:

 [1]  Boy's Own Paper, May 5, 1894.

 [2]  The Times, April 16, 1873, p. 6.

 [3]  The Times, September 9, 1876, p. 8.

 [4]  Ibid. April 7, 1885, p. 7.

 [5]  Ibid. August 3, 1885, p. 10.

 [6]  The Times, August 25, 1885, p. 6, and August 27, p. 8. See also the Times, October 2, 1837, p. 3.

 [7]  Tremadoc, 1875.

 [8]  Alpine Journal, vol. ix. p. 384.

 [9]  Mackintosh, p. 809.

 [10]  See the Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society for April 1893, xix. No. 86, for a summary of the temperatures thus recorded.

 [11]  Vol. vi. p. 195.

 [12]  See the Doncaster Chronicle.

 [13]  The Times, July 2, 6, 8, and 15, 1875.

 [14]  See the Times, June 25, 1861.

 [15]  The Times, January 29 and February 7, 1879; Chambers's Journal, May 7, 1887.

 [16]  Vol. xi. p. 239.

 [17]  The Times, 1846, October 14, October 24, October 30, November 3, and 1847, June 5; the Globe, October 1846; Chambers's Journal, May 1887.

 [18]  See the Philosophical Transactions, p. 294, of that year.

 [19]  Gentleman's Magazine, 1768.

Transcriber's note:
The alternate spellings Carnarvonshire and Caernarvonshire both appear in the original. I have left them as written (both are accepted spellings).
Inconsistent hyphenation and dashes (e.g. number-ft vs. number ft) are left as written.