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Xorth Craftshury, Vt. — Beautiful aurora 5th ; good sleighing 5th to 

 31st. Month 5.770 warmer than in 18G8, and 4.43<^ than in 1867. 



Woodstock, Vt. — Beautiful aurora 5th ; ice thirteen inches thick 15th. 



N'ear St. Albans, Vt. — Snow seven inches, first sleighing 19th ; hail and 

 rain 22d. 



West Charlotte, Vt. — Bright aurora (Jth ; spring-like, robins singing 

 23d, first time since October 9th ; snow nearly gone 31st. Mildest De- 

 cember for years. 



Kingston, Mass. — Very mild December, ground scarcely frozen ; grass 

 gTcen in sunny spots. 



Topsfield, Mass. — Good sleighing first half of month ; frost gone and 

 plowing 25th ; month closes pleasant. Rain in 1869, 47.219 inches. 



Milton, Mass. — Last quarter of month remarkably warm. 



Lunenburg, Mass. — Open ground free from snow and frost 1st and 

 31st; hard gale 1st; drifting snow-storm 6th; month still and mild. 

 Average mean temi^erature for thirty years, 28.57° ; this, 22.61°. 



Amherst, Mass. — Drifting snow-storm 4th to 6th; sleighing 7th to 

 25tli ; snow off open ground, 31st. 



Middletown, Ct. — River closed 8th, reopened 28th, and navigation re- 

 sumed 30th. 



BxooTcJield, Ct. — Except first part, month mild ; last week spring-like, 

 but roads nearly impassable. 



Moriches, N. Y. — First third of month some cold days, remainder very 

 mild. 



South Hartford, N. Y. — Canals closed and many boats frozen in 9th. 



Fort Edward, N. Y. — Month very mild, but little snow and sleighing. 



Garrison'^, N. Y. — Ground has been frozen six inches ; no frost 31st. 



N'ew York City. — Auroras 13th, 15th ; meteors morning of 13th. Month 

 warm, moist, cloudy ; six inches snow 6th, but clear 7th to 16th. 



Cooperstoicn, N. Y. — Unusually mild December, only a few days sleigh- 

 ing. 



North Hammond, N. Y. — Tremendous gale 22d. Month closes with 

 ground frozen hard ; little snow, no sleighing. 



Houseville, JSf. Y. — Snow, windy, 3d, 4th, 18th; snow gone 11th; 

 sleighing good, four to six inches; snow on ice 31st. 



Leyden, N. Y. — Autumn mean temperature, 42.63°. Mean tempera- 

 ture of 1868, 42.40°; of 1869, 41.88°. Rain and melted snow of 1868, 

 53.40 inches ; of 1869, 69.12 inches. Snow of 1868, 19 feet 2^ inches ; 

 of 1869, 18 feet 5 inches ; of December 1869, three feet. 



South Trenton, JV. Y. — Balmy Christmas ; warm December ; ground 

 bare, frozen only four inches ; swamps full of water and scarcely frozen. 



Depauville, N. Y. — Auroras 5th, 7th, 30th. Ground bare mnch of the 

 month. In 1869, rain on ninety-one days, snow on fifty-nine, sleighing 

 on ninety-five. No frost May 27 to September 28. Mean temperature, 

 43.4°; rain-fall, 50.34 inches; snow 105.55 inches. 



Worth Volney, JV. Y. — Hardly any snow; roads muddy; stock grazing 

 in the fields. Mouth 5.28° warmer than in 1868. 



Palermo, K Y.— Mean temperature of 1869, 43.91° ; of spring, 28.5° ; 

 summer, 65.6° ; autumn, 45.1°; winter months, 24.6°. Rain, 35.8 inches; 

 snow, eiglity-three inches. 



Buffalo, N. Y. — Dark, stormy month ; only twenty-eight hours sunshine 

 in its thirty-one days. No ice in lake, harbor, or canal ; no frost in 

 ground; air, spring-like. 



Neuiark, N. J. — Mean temperature above sixteen out of twenty-six 

 Decembers, and above the average of the twenty-six ; rain-fall also ex- 



