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Art. VIII. Particulars on the State of the Weather at Columbus, 

 in Franklin County, Ohio, United States of America, in January 

 and February, 1835 ; with a Notice of the State of Temperature 

 on Jan, 5. 1835, in various Places in the United States. By 

 Mr. George E. Hartwell, of the Firm of Lazell and Hartwell, 

 Nurserymen at Columbus. 



Mr. Hartwell has appended the following particulars to 

 a letter on other subjects, to the end that these particulars 

 may prove of what interest they may. We print them in the 

 same feeling. Mr. Hartwell has not presented deductions 

 of any kind on the facts detailed ; and the facts themselves 

 extend only, it may be seen, to two months of time, and 

 nearly all of them to one place. Notwithstanding these 

 things, we cannot doubt that the facts themselves, so far as 

 they go, will be interesting to those to whom subjects of 

 meteorology are so. Upon the character and soil of Ohio, 

 Mr. Hartwell has expressed, in his letter, these remarks : — 



" We are situated in a state the most fertile, perhaps, of 

 any in the Union, and which is frequently styled ' the Queen 

 of the West.' The soil, so far as I have seen, is, for the 

 most part, a rich loam, with here and there patches of a 

 black alluvial, and, upon an average, at least 2 ft. deep." 



State of the Weather in various Parts of the Union, on Monday , Jan. 5. 1835. 



At New Haven, Connecticut — 23° 



Lowell, Massachusets — 24 



Concord, Mass. — 27 



Northampton, Mass. — 32 



Woonasocket Falls, R.J. —24 



Providence, R. J. — 26 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —33 



Mr. HartwelPs table requires a page to itself: the vacancy 

 left here gives space for the following notice on the 



State of the Weather at Boston, in New England, in the 

 United States, in March, 1835. — The memory of the oldest 

 person living bears no record of such a cold, wet, blustering, 

 disagreeable month as this of March, 1835, which leaves us 

 to-day. It came in with the mercury three or four degrees 

 below zero, and is likely to bid us good-by in a snow storm : 

 wind east. Charles River has been frozen over more than 

 one third of the month. There is ice in the streets of our 

 city, which first covered the pavements in November. Last 

 week we heard one of our neighbours threatening to plant 

 peas on the first day of April. We should like to witness 

 the operation. He may make holes for the seeds with a 

 crowbar ; but how he can contrive to cover it with earth, is 

 more than we can conjecture. (Boston (America) Courier,. 

 as quoted in the Morning Chronicle, May 8. 1835.) 



