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the mouth of Rondout kill the 5th day of April, 1785, with horses 

 and sleighs upon the ice, and men walked across upon the ice 

 until the 9th of April." (Hasbrouck.) 



1805-6. An open winter; Hudson river free from ice February 

 20 th. (S.) 



1810. Hudson river open until January 19th. (S.) 



1812-16. From May to September, 1812, each moiith was from 

 3.6 degrees to 7.2 degree below the average (at Cambridge, Mass.) 

 * * * a refrigeration equaled for two months only, June and! 

 July of 1816, which were 5 degrees and 5.8 degrees below. In the 

 Northern^ 'States snows and frosts occurred in every month of both 

 summers; Indian corn did mot ripen; fruits and grains were 

 greatly reduced in quantity or wholly cut off. * * * In- Eng- 

 land, 1816 wais almost as extreme as in the United States. (B.) 



1820-21. In New York the winter of 1820-21 was also " one of 

 the four during a century in which the Hudson between Paulus 

 Hook and New York was crossed on the ice. (Caldwell.) " (B.) 



1826-35. " On February 22d, 1826, mercury solidified at Platts- 

 burgh, N. Y., a condition requiring a reduction to -40-| degrees, 

 and in January, 1835, mercury froze at Lebanon, N. Y." (Hil- 

 dreth.) " In the winter of 1835-36 the thermemelt'er was below 

 zero on twenty-six days." (Fisk.) In many parts of New Eng- 

 land isnew remained uninterruptedly from December until May. 



* * * Long Island Sound was closed by ice. " The summer 

 months of 1835 were nearly as severe as those of 1812 and 1816." 

 (B.) [ 



1852. In January the East River at New York was closed and 

 crossed on the ice on the 20th and for three days following. (B.) 



1853. A w'arm year * * * winter of 1852-53 one of the 

 warmest on record and very wet, the winter irainfall at Newark 

 having been 15.85 inches. (S.) 



1856. In 1856 a period of severe cold continued for nearly 

 three monlths, the greatest refrigeraition occurring ibetween the 

 25th and 28th parallels. Long Island iSound was closed to 

 navigation from January 25th to Fe'bruary 27th and the harbor 



