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blew tlie water out of the Delaware river, so that the tide was lower than has 

 been remembered by any person living iu the place. 



Dyherry, Pennsylvania. — March 7. — Ice on a natural pond seventeen inches 

 thick, 21st, ground frozen eight inches. 31st. — March is always considered 

 the best month here for making maple-sugar, but this year it was too cold. 

 Seven inches of snow fell in March, making fifty and a half inches during the 

 winter ; yet there was scarcely any good sleighing. 



Tioga, Pennsylvania. — March 21 — Diffuse lightning and heavy thunder 

 southwest at 2 a. m., accompanied by a little rain. 28th, river frozen over 

 again for the seventh time this winter. 31st, no snow in March deep enough 

 to measure, which is very unusual here. 



Horsham, Pennsylvania. — March 31. — The month throughout has been 

 unusually cold, blustering, and unpleasant. Vegetation is very backward ; 

 everything still looks like winter; very little ploughing has been done in this 

 neighborhood. 



Fallsington, Pennsylvania. — March 31. — The mouth has been very back- 

 ward ; scarcely any agricultural operations are yet commenced in this vicinity. 



Pennsville, Pennsylvania. — March 20. — Afternoon showery; barometer fall- 

 ing. 21st, thunder, lightning, and rain in the past night; barometer low. At 

 7 a. m. the thermometer the highest at that hour during the month, except on 

 three other mornings. At 9 p. m. it had fallen 21 degrees, and the barometer 

 more than the third of an inch in the same time. 31st, vegetation has made 

 little or no progress; the lack of steady snow and the frequent hard freezings 

 make the fate of the winter crops doubtful. 



Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. — March 20, — Thunder and lightning, with rain, 

 at 5 p. m. 



Wytheville, Viiginia. — March 21. — At 7 a. m. the lowest barometer of the 

 month is recorded, and the temperature was higher than at the same hour on 

 any other day except the 14th. 



Pilatka, Florida. — March 10. — Oranges are now about gone, and the trees 

 are putting out in sweet beautiful flowers. All kinds of garden vegetables are 

 raised here twice a year. The gardens are now planted for spring, and in Sep- 

 tember will be planted again. 



Grenada, Mississippi. — March 20. — Storm of wind and rain, with unusually 

 severe and frequent thunder from the southwest, beginning at 8 p. m. and con- 

 tinuing one hour. , 



Natchez, Mississippi. — March 20. — Overcast; at 5.15 p. m. distant thunder 

 in the west; 5.30 p. m. a light sprinkle of rain. 21st, a severe thunder-storm 

 began at 2 a. m. from the northwest; clear at noon. 



Helena, Arkansas. — March 20. — Temperature at 7 o'clock this morning 68°, 

 which was the highest at that hour during the month. No rain is mentioned on 

 the record after the 15th till the 23d. 



Clarksville, Tennessee. — March 20. — From 9 to 11 o'clock p. m. the sky was 

 nearly cloudless and brilliant ; but to the north along the horizon a low cloud 

 was lying, in which at numerous points remote active lightning was observed 

 reflected on the sky, and apparently passing from the west. 21st. — About Ij 

 o'clock this morning it commenced raining in brisk showers, (sometimes heavy 

 and short,) which continued until about 3 a. m. During the storm some very 

 heavy thunder occurred; wind moderate from the westwtird. 



Chilesburg, Kentucky. — March 20. — A thunder-storm last night, with very 

 loud thunder ; showers at long intervals until 12 o'clock. 21st, another thunder- 

 storm last night. 



Louisville, Kentucky. — The barometer was lower and the thermometer higher 

 on the 20th than on any other day of the month. 



Ripley, Ohio. — The temperature at 9 p. m. on the 20th was G6°, the highest 



