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Show Jl leteo1·otogical obsc1·r•ation.r; made by caj1trtin Pike, rlumtg u to111 IJe mede tl1rough the I nternal Provinfl's of .\ hu 5~win, in tlif yem· 180 7. Tim~: of - Thermometer. ol>,erva tion. Wind. cl Sky. 1110nths. sun ~~ c . 3 JJ . ]If. I sun-set. ("our St. Forcr. ,;ys. 25 ---- ~~ 15 ] !) l!l clt·ar - 21j 14 HI 17 - - 27 15 19 17 - ?R 14 17 16 - - 21) j <: l5 211 ::!0 - - :.o 15 - 20 - . 1 l 11 - - - - 2 12 24 17 - - . J 15 23 Jtj some r .\iu - ·1 14 24 17 clc.u· - l7 2.1 Jh - w . f, li 1? 28 1·2 ll• - s 7 )4 2[) 15 - s w li 12 27 u - w u ( j 26 20 - - JO 11 24 17 - w II . 25 . - - 1.~ 27 . . . J~ - n 27 20 - . E I I 10 30 20 - s w Ji ::..... 11 32 1·2 . 1h <: - (' (C1 r SE 25 . cloudy s ii ....... . 23 20 some r.1in - IH ~ 2\1 24 21 1·2 r .1in - j l) 20 ) .,: - u clOlHly }~ gcnrlr •>o 13 24 - so111c ra in - 21 - 22 HI c loudy - 22 - 24 . ,.aiuy morning . 2J 15 23 15 d r .;r w 2·1 14 22 21 - - 2.~ ) (] 24 23 - . !dH 13 23 22 cloucl y and rain w ':>7 1<1 21 111 rain . I cloudy s . \l~ 15 23 15 do. - . ~ v 1!1 - - 30 . j 30 20 clo. - do. s . .11 22 27 25 1 }~ 17 :t . - - cloudy SE . ) - 25 . . :- ::J . 2/l . - I . - I I-) I . :'0 - - . r . R. The forf'going arc from Hc i\Untct·'s Thcrmomctct·. PIKE: APPENDIX TO PART I. [ No. l. J DEAR GENERAr., Ifead of t/1e mj1ids de Moyen, Aug. 20, 1805. I arrived here this day, after what I have conside t·ed a•; rather an unfortunate voynf; e, having had a set·ies of r uiny weather for the fhst six days, by which means all onr biscuit was more or less damaged, they being in very bad and open ba!Tcls, and having got twice so fast on {()!'ked sawyers or old trees, as to oblig-e me J>ttl'tly to unload, and staving in a pl ank in mJoth e t·, which nearly sunk our· boat before we g-ot on shot·e, and dctuined us one whole <lay. These all occa ioncd unavoidable de te ntions of two days, and the innumerable islands and sand bars (which, without exaggeration, exceeds the river below the Ohio) has been the cause of m uch unexpected delay: but I calculate on gettiug to Pr·ail'ic de Chien in at least the same time I was conling here. \ Yc wct·c met yes1 tt day on the Hapicls by a M1·. v\ il liam Ewing, who is sent he re by tit ,. goVct ·nmcnt of the United States to teach the savag·es agr·iculture; and I pe rceive in g-ove rnor Harrison's ill!,lructions is te rmed aa agent of the U ni tc <.l States, undc1· the instructions of P . Chotcatt (and, he suys n with a sala t·y of 500 dollars per annum. I concci vctl you djd not know of this func tiona t·y, or th at you would have mentioned him to me. Ilc wus accompanied by a Monsicu!' L ouis Tisson llouite, who informed me he had calculated on going witlt me as my inte1·pretcr, and that you had spoken to him on the occasion, 1 |