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...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, warm south-west, veering to cold north-west winds, falling, followed by rising barometer...
...told me a story the other day," Percy observed, trimming his pipe, "that pleased me a good deal. Dr. C. roomed on the south-west corner of Maine Hall, and had a very sunny place. Gray, who was just across the entry, came in one day with a lot of pears not quite ripe, and asked to leave them in C.'s windows to ripen. A few mornings after, Professor Packard called on C. to ask something about a library book. After he had done his errand, the old gentleman walked up to the window, and began to examine...
...summer winds at New London are south-west. The river runs south, and at the end of the course Winthrop Point projects well out from the west bank, and so protects the river from below. Moreover, as there is a tide of two feet, there will always be one time of day when the wind and current being together it cannot be very rough, so that the crews will not be deprived of practice for days and days together, as they were at Springfield...