| Description | Daily records of the weather observed at York Factory, Hudson's Bay, Canada. Columns for date, time, barometer, thermometer, winds, weather and general remarks. Usually six readings per day, generally commencing at 6.00a.m. and ending at 9.00p.m. The general remarks contain records of the aurora borealis and other phenomena, with occasional references to natural history [for example, 'two Snow birds on the Plantation being the first this Spring', p.59]. Movements of people and related information are occasionally noted ['The Natives inform me, the Shores of the North River are render'd impassable, by he falling of the Banks p.6].
Although Humphrey Marten remained Chief Factor for the York Factory at this period, the hand of this meteorological sequence appears to be be different from MA/160/2. |