ill the State of New York, -dW^ ; S59 



E-iver closed Jan. 20. — (Hudson.) Jan. 22. — (Poughkeep- 

 aie.) 



River open Feb. 8.-— (Hudson.) Feb. 9. — (Poughkeepsie.) 

 Feb. 8. — (Lansingburgh.) 



River closed Dec. 22. — (Lansingburgh.) Dec. 31. — (Hud- 

 son.) Dec. 23. — (Albany.) 



Canal. — Feb. 23, canal open and boats running. — (Utica.) 



March 29. Canal navigation commenced for the season. — 

 (Utica.) 



Dec. 18. Canal closed by ice. — (Utica.) 



Hamilton Academy is situated in a valley twenty-eight miles 

 from Utica, and about 700 feet above the Erie canal at that 

 place. A branch of the Chenango river enters the village from 

 the northwest, thence runs southwest, and the winds, follow- 

 ing the course of the river, are, for the most part, in those 

 directions. — (Hamilton.) 



We hope it will be in our power to favour our meteorologi- 

 cal readers annually with an abstract of the above reports, 

 which are equally creditable to the zeal of the Principals and 

 Professors of the College, and to the public spirit of the Re- 

 gents of the University. There is no country in the world 

 where the sciences of observation are making such rapid pro- 

 gress as in North America ; and before another century is 

 completed, those sciences which depend on abstract reasoning, 

 and which are fast declining in our own country, will in all 

 probability find a sanctuary in the New World. If, during 

 eight centuries, England has produced only one Newton, how 

 unreasonable is it to expect that America should have given 

 birth to another in the first century of her political exist- 

 ence. 



