DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6095#0217
SICILY AND MALTA. 199
tains, which raust still add to the heat of
the air.
Some gentlemen who were in the coun-
try told me, that they walked out imme-
diately after the Sirocc, and found the grass
and plants, that had been green the day
before, were become quite brown, and
crackled under their feet as if dried in an
oven.
I mail add for youramusement, a journal
of the weather since we came to Palermo.
The barometer has continued constantly
within a line or two of the same point,
3—and the Iky has been always clear,
except the day of the Sirocc and the 26th
of June, when we had a pretty smart
shower of rain for two hours ; so that I
think I have nothing farther to do, but"to
mark the heights of the thermometer.
Thermometer.
June 17 - - . - 73.!-
18 74
O 4 June
tains, which raust still add to the heat of
the air.
Some gentlemen who were in the coun-
try told me, that they walked out imme-
diately after the Sirocc, and found the grass
and plants, that had been green the day
before, were become quite brown, and
crackled under their feet as if dried in an
oven.
I mail add for youramusement, a journal
of the weather since we came to Palermo.
The barometer has continued constantly
within a line or two of the same point,
3—and the Iky has been always clear,
except the day of the Sirocc and the 26th
of June, when we had a pretty smart
shower of rain for two hours ; so that I
think I have nothing farther to do, but"to
mark the heights of the thermometer.
Thermometer.
June 17 - - . - 73.!-
18 74
O 4 June