Sept. YesTerDay was the first day of autumn, The thermometer on Thursday night went down below 70° for the first time since the 22nd of June, and the sun rose yesterday morning in a cloudless sky with a light north-west wind blowing. We may, and probably shall, have some more hot days, but the summer may fairly be considered aten end. It has been' emphatically a hot summer, and it is interesting to compare it: with a couple of previous hot summers. - It came for some reason seven years before it was dae, the previous hot summers having been - 1866, 1879, and 1892, with regular-intervals of thirteen years, 1879 the great heat began on the 20th of June, and the following were the maximum readings of the thermemeter in the Settlement in the shade
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