S.; 8 P.M., clear, pleasant.

"_July_ 1st. Fine and clear; 8 A.M., cirrus in sheets, curls, wisps,
and gauzy wreaths, with patches beneath of darker shade, all nearly
motionless; close and warm (N. E.); a long, low bank of haze in S.,
with one large cumulus in S. W., but very distant.

"2d. At 5 A.M., overcast generally, with hazy clouds and fog of
prismatic shades, chiefly greenish-yellow; 7 A.M. (S. S. E.
freshening), thick in W.; 8 A.M. (S. fresh), much cirrus, thick and
gloomy; 9 A.M., a clap of thunder, and clouds hurrying to N.; a
reddish haze all around; at noon the margin of a line of
yellowish-red cumuli just visible above a gloomy-looking bank of haze
in N. N. W. (S. very fresh); warm, 86 deg.; more cumuli in N. W.; the
whole line of cumuli N. are separated from the clouds south by a
clearer space. These clouds are borne rapidly past the zenith, but
never get into the clear space--they seem to melt or to be turned off
N. E. The cumuli in N. and N. W., slowly spreading E. and S.; 3 P.M.,
the bank hidden by small cumuli; 4 P.M., very thick in north,
magnificent cumuli visible sometimes through the breaks, and beyond
them a dark, watery back-ground (S. strong); 4.30 P.M., wind round to
N. W. in a severe squall; 5 P.M., heavy rain, with thunder, etc.--all
this time there is a bright sky in the south visible through the rain
15 deg. high; 7 P.M., clearing (S. W. mod.).

"3d. Very fine and clear (N. W.); noon, a line of large cumuli in N.,
and dark lines of stratus below, the cumuli moving eastward; 6 P.M.,
their altitude 2 deg. 40'. Velocity, 1 deg. per minute; 9 P.M., much
lightning in the bank north.

"4th. 6 A.M., a line of small cumulo-stratus, extending east and
west, with a clear horizon north and south 10 deg. high. This band seems
to have been thrown off by the central yesterday, as it moves slowly
south, preserving its parallelism, although the clouds composing it
move eastward. Fine and cool all day (N. W. mod.)--lightning in N.

"5th. Cloudy (N. almost calm), thick in E., clear in W.; same all
day.

"6th. Fine and clear (E. light); small cumuli at noon; clear night.

"7th. Warm (S. E. light); cirrus bank N. W.; noon (S.) thickening in
N.; 6 P.M., hazy but fine; 8 P.M., lightning in N.; 10 P.M., the
lightning shows a heav