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almost impassable. There is yet mucli frost in the ground; in some places it 

 extends to the depth of three and a half feet, an unusual depth in this locality. 



Garrison's, New York. — March 31. — The weather through the month has 

 been unusually severe, the mercury ranging so low as to cause the river to close 

 again on the 9th and 10th; a heavy snow and rain squall from the southwest 

 on the 17th, and at 7 a. m. on the 21st one loud clap of thunder from south- 

 west. Frost is still in the ground, and the earth exhibits no signs of the return 

 of spring. The winter grain and meadows of this vicinity will be much injured. 



Theresa, New York. — March 21. — Two heavy peals of thunder between 2 

 and 3 a. m., the rumbling of the first one being very much prolonged. 



Depauvillc, New York. — March 21. — Thunder-storm last night. First dis- 

 tant thunder in the west heard at about 2.30 a. m. At 2.45 it was overhead, 

 when two loud peals occurred, and about two miles in a northwestern direction 

 the lightning-rod of a barn was struck. The rod was broken in three places, 

 and a large hole made in the frozen ground, but the building escaped uninjured. 

 This morning the ground is covered with eight-tenths of an inch of snow. 31st. — 

 None of the early spring birds have been seen yet in this neighborhood. The 

 ground has been mostly bare of snow all the month, and is frozen more than 

 two feet deep. Some uneasiness is felt for the winter grain and meadow lands. 

 There was tolerably good sleighing on the old snow-banks up to the 14th, but 

 since then it has given place to wheeling, which was pretty good on the hard 

 frozen ground the rest of the month. The river St. Lawrence, at Clayton, is 

 frozen over still ; teams were crossing on the 28th, and may be yet. Good 

 crossing on the ice in all eighty-six days. 



Palerrtio, Neic York. — March 21. — The first thunder-storm of the season 

 occurred last night. It came from the northwest with all the severity of a 

 summer storm, notwithstanding the aii- previously was keen and cold. It was 

 followed by snow-squalls, which continued through the day. 



Jamestown, New York. — A heavy thunder-storm occurred in the night of the 

 20th, about 11 o'clock. Two claps of thunder were very loud, and the rain 

 poured in torrents. 



Albany, New York. — March 18. — The Hudson river opened. 



New York, N. Y.— -March 19. — Steamboats came from Albany. 



Gouverneur, New York.— March. 21. — Heavy thunder last night. 31st, no 

 snow on the ground except in shaded places ; frost out to the depth of about 

 two inches. 



Skancateles, New York. — March 21. — A heavy thunder-storm occurred this 

 morning from 2 to 3i o'clock, (the first this season;) lightning diffuse, south- 

 ward ; one flash appeared to arise from the earth upward like the body of a 

 tree, followed instantaneously by thunder. 



Geneva, New York. — The month has been 2.24^ colder than the average for 

 the last fifteen years, with an unusual amount of cold west and northwest winds. 

 There was sharp lightning and heavy thunder on the morning of the 21st, be- 

 tween 4 and 5 o'clock, accompanied with some rain. 



Rochester, Neic Ydk. — March 21. — There was a shower, with thunder and 

 lightning, between 2 and 3 a. m. This storm reduced the batometer lower than 

 for several months before. 



Bvffalo, New York. — March 21. — Lightning, thunder, and rain from 1 to 2 

 a, m. ; mist at daylight. 22d, good skating around the light-house. 



Newark, New Jersey. — The mean temperature of March was nearly one 

 degree and three-fourths below the average of the month during the last 

 twenty-two years. 



Greemoich, New Jersey. — Crocuses in bloom on the 15th, and violets on the 

 16th. 



Butlington, New Jersey. — March 25 and 26. High wind from the northwest 



