622 Supposed Connection of Meteoric Phenomena^ 



at Orthez. {French Papers.) On March 25. 1834, snow fell 

 on the mountains of Abruzzo, near Rome : there had been 

 no snow there at that period since 250 years. * In the Ar- 

 chives of the Academy of Incoronati.^ it is said that snow fell, 

 and remained a whole day on the ground and houses, on 

 March 25. 1595. The winter of 1833 was particularly mild 

 at Rome. These cases are mentioned in order to show that, 

 as in 1816 — 1818, there have been instances of unusual 

 cold in these last three years, f We will now try how far 

 there has been a disengagement of ice, and a melting thereof 

 in the Atlantic. On reference to the Quarterly Review 

 (xviii. 447.), the state of the ice in 1817 and 1818 will be 

 found. The following examples not only parallel, but con- 

 tinue, the statements there made, J 



On Dec. 1. 1832, the Sir E. Codrington and the Jonah 

 were lost in the ice at the entrance to the St. Lawrence. On 

 Feb. 26. 1833, the Emulous packet met with field ice off 

 Nova Scotia, in long. 30° w. ; and, in lat. 43° n., long. 49° w., 

 she fell in with packed ice : on March 4., she passed three ice- 

 bergs in ninety-five miles' run. It is most unusual to meet 

 with ice in this part of the Atlantic during winter. The 

 Harvest Home and Mary Ritchie struck on ice, on May 9., 

 in lat. 46°, long 45° w. The Martha was sunk by ice, on 

 May 18., 290 miles from Newfoundland, after being eight 

 days beset. The Lima was beset, on May 11., 400 miles 

 off, in lat. N. 46° 20', long. w. 45° 50'. The Waterloo was 

 lost, on June 14., off the Banks; and the Mary White, on 

 June 21. On June 29., the British Tar and Alloa left the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence : on July 3., they found Belle Isle 

 blocked up with ice ; they put back : on July 6 ., they passed 

 through seventy miles of ice, some of the pieces a mile in 

 length. They found nine brigs, two ships, and a bark stand- 

 ing off and on at the eastern edge of the ice, waiting for a 

 passage ; and, as far as the eye could reach, to 48° long, w., 

 icebergs were numerous and immensely large. The General 

 Wolf was lost, on July 6., in 46° n. 48° w. ; and the Francis 

 and Mary, off the Banks, on July 11. On March 7., the 

 Maria Elizabeth left Cork for Newfoundland : she fell in with 



* Notizie del Giorno di Roma. The whole of Upper Lombardy was 

 covered with snow, as far as Milan, March 6., at which time snow fell on 

 the Welsh hills. 



f For other cases, see M. N. H.y vii. 299. 



^ Surely there must be a mistake in one of them : the reviewer says, 

 the Funchal left St. John's, Newfoundland, Jan. 17. 1818, and, about 

 fifteen miles " westward " of that port, fell in with ice ; again, she fell in 

 with ice in 42° lat., 250 miles " more westerly.^* This is as bad as the 

 offence which Mr. Waddington committed, when he made the Nile run the 

 wrong way. See the Quarterly Review^ xviii. 447., and xxvii. 215. 



