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mile falls ; several bridges carried away and much damage done ; ice about 

 eighteen inches thick, firm and solid. 



Middlebury, Vermont. — Good sleighing about three weeks of the month. 

 Mcndon, Massachusetts. — February 28. — Ground bare of snow ; roads muddy ; 

 one week only of sleighing for the winter. 



New Bedford, Massachusetts. — February 14 — Thunder-storm at night about 

 one o'clock. 2Sth. — No serious obstruction to navigation as it respects lower 

 harbor, and wharves south of the bridge, has occurred from ice this winter. 



Richmond, Massachusetts. — February 8. — The heaviest snow of the season 

 (eight inches) fell to-day, and the prospect of a good run of sleighing is very 

 fine. 12th, raining all day ; sleighing destroyed. The quantity of water 

 from the rain and melted snow was unusually large, and came in a good time. 

 In consequence of the frozen state of the ground it did not affect springs, but 

 streams and ponds were filled so as to give a timely relief. 



Georgctoivn, Massachusetts. — February 13. — Distant but distinct peals of 

 thunder and several vivid flashes of lightning, between 1 and 2 o'clock this morn- 

 ning, during a rapid rain-fall. 19th, ground apparently free from frost in a few 

 places. It has not been solidly frozen this winter, although frost has been found 

 twelve or fourteen inches below the surface. At the time of the severest cold, 

 the ground, although entirely free from snow, was also very free from moisture, 

 the probable cause of the slight freeze. 28th, surface again frozen three 

 inches. 



Wcstfield, Massachusetts. — February 18 and 19. — The streams rose and the 

 ice was swept away from the river. 28th, there was very little sleighing, 

 during the month. 



Newhurrj, Massachusetts. — February 14. — Lightning, with some thunder, 

 between 12 and 1 o'clock at night. 



'Pomfret, Connecticut. — February 12. — Thunder in the night ; great rain and 

 damage. 



Groton, Connecticut. — February 14. — Very high wind this evening from the 

 east, with rain ; very sharp lightning and heavy thunder. 



Columbia, Connecticut. — February 14. — Thunder and lightning accompanied 

 the rain this evening. 



Depauville, New York. — February 28. — Since the thaw and rain on the 

 24th, the fields and meadows have been bare, except along fences or where the 

 snow was heaped into banks by drift. Sleighing was good all along the month 

 till the last thaw, when the snow, which had drifted, and lay irom one to three 

 feet in the roads, was reduced about one-half, leaving some short sections of the 

 road bare. On the whole, the weather of Febru iry was quite favorable for all 

 out-dcor work of the season. The ground is now frozen from two to three feet. 

 This may be very feenefic4al, as it will loosen and mellow the soil, and may de- 

 stroy, numbers of eggs and grubs of injurious insects and worms. 



Nichols, New York. — February 25. — Susquehanna river crowded all day 

 with floating ice ; a large portion of the dam across the river at Towanda was 

 torn away; this will stop navigation for several months on the North Branch 

 canal, Pennsylvania. 28th. — No sleighing of any amount this month or during 

 the winter. 



Palermo, New York. — February 4. — A snow-storm set in on the morning of 

 the 2d, and continued with unabated fury to 3j p. m. to-day. The snow fell 

 three and a half feet on the level. 5th, roads all blocked up with snow. 

 This has been the heaviest snow-storm, except one in February, 1856, within 

 the remembrance of the observer. 9th, first regular mail received in a week. 

 11th. — Warm rain yesterday and to-day; snow settling very fast. 28th. — 

 Fifty-eight inches of snow fell during the month, the largest amount in the 

 memory of the oldest inhabitants. It has been the coldest February, except in 

 1SG5, during the last nine years. 



