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beholder's imagination, as lions rampant, griffins, or eagles with wings outspread—as monstrous saurians or Milton's Apollyon, "lying many a rood," chase each other across the sky. Then the answering shadows flit past, as if in sportive humour, from the direction of the ocean, over the Peninsula, across the bay, and after showing themselves for a brief space on Signal Hill, vanish at length over the sloping sides of Mount Cargill.

The following table explains itself. It may be mentioned, however, that the thermometer used hangs in a passage, near the outer door (in the shade), and that the readings are taken at 9 a.m.

	1887.			1888.			1889.
	Rainfall.		Thermometer average.	Rainfall.		Thermometer average.	Rainfall.		Thermometer average.
	Days.	Inches.		Days.	Inches.		Days.	Inches.
			°			°			°
January	7	1.7	66	15	3.5	56	5	.7	66
February	5	2.3	66	6	2.1	55	1	.1	60
March	11	2.5	63	16	7.5	53	13	3	58
April	12	2.3	57	17	1.5	50	9	1.5	50
May	19	3.5	46	11	3.5	48	5	1.1	49
June	10	4.7	46	8	1.3	45	8	1.5	42
July	9	2.7	44	11	6	36	5	1.5	42
August	15	3	45	15	7.7	44	3	1.1	49
September	15	4.5	43	4	.7	41	8	1.5	42
October	12	4.5	52	7	2.7	50	6	1.5	42
November	10	2.5	53	15	3.5	52	9	1.5	50
December	10	2.5	57	10	2.5	55	5	1.5	58
Totals	135	36.7		135	42.5		77	17
Average for year (fractions omitted)			53			48			51