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usually ranges with the varieties of stock, from the 1 5th of No- 

 vember to Christmas. Plowing, commences in a series of years, 

 about the middle of April, and usually terminates in November, al- 

 though in some seasons it is extended into the last days of the year. 



In order to present some illustrations of the climate and seasons, 

 I avail myself of the courtesy of Robert Clark Esq. and the Rev. 

 Zadock Thompson, the eminent Professor of Natural History in 

 the Vermont university. Mr. Clark has favored me with a copy 

 of a meteorological table kept by himself at the Adiroudac works, 

 for a term of six months in 1852. Professor Thompson, has also 

 supplied me with a copy of one kept by him during the same pe- 

 riod at Burlington, Vermont. The former was made at the highest 

 cultivated point, probably in the State, and the latter at an eleva- 

 tion of about 350 feet above tide water. They afford interesting and 

 useful means of enquiry and comparison. The notes from the diary 

 of Mr. Clark, exhibit the character of the climate, and the progress 

 of the seasons in that elevated position. It is proper to remark 

 that the spring of '52 was unusually cold, backward and incle- 

 ment. * 



