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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, WASHINGTON, ARKANSAS. 



• April 6. Vegetation was, at this time, far advanced; peaches and apples large as bird eggs; corn up, and flowers out; leaves in th( 

 forest fully grown. AU were killed, and the tree-tops bore the appearance of fire having run over them. AVheat in the ear killed to thf 

 ground. Grass that had become sulficient for pasturage destroyed, and starvation produced among the cattle. 



A similar freeze took place on the 6th of April, 1827, just thirty years before, producing precisely similar efi'ects. 



