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Hortli BiUerica, Mass. — Hard snow-storm 13tli ; furious storm, 28tli; 

 bluebirds, robins 29tb. A cold, stormy month, till 29tli. 



Xew Bedford^ Mass. — Eougbest montli of tlie season ; grass greening ; 

 flowers at different times all winter. 



Worcester, Mass. — Fimous snow-storm 13th ; snowy 16 ; squally 17th, 

 18th ; auroras 22d, 25th ; bluebirds 30 ; robins 31st. 



3Iendo)i, Mass. — Bright aurora 1st ; fifteen inches snow 10th ; bluebirds 

 21st ; robins 22d ; i^ewees 30th ; roads muddy 31st. 



Lunenburg, Mass. — Brilliant aurora "SOth ; good sleighing most of 

 month ; average March temperature for thirty years, 31.10° j for 1869, 

 20.08° ; this month 30.4°. 



Amherst, 2Jass. — Violent wind p. m. and all night 27th. 



Richmond, Mass. — Lightning 1st ; high northeast wind and snow 13th, 

 16th. 



WilUamstown, 2fass. — Furious northeast snow-storms 13th, 16th ; au- 

 roras 19th, 30th, 31st ; bluebirds 21st ; robin 21th ; purple finch 20th ; 

 woodcock 31st. 



Hinsdale, Mass. — Heavy snows, high winds 13th, 10th, 27th ; auroras 

 19th, 25th ; a severe wintry month. 



Newport, R. I. — Snow, rain, hail, sleet, with high wind 13th ; rain with 

 strong gale 27th. 



Columbia, Conn. — Bluebirds, robins, blackbirds 2'th. 



Colebrool; Conn. — Severe snow-storms 7th, 13th, ICth, 27th. 



Moriches, N. Y. — Auroral light 1st, 21st, 25th ; gale, some rain 16th ; 

 bluebirds 22d ; wild geese 28th; robins 30th. Cold March; two severe 

 storms on 13th and 27th, both Sundays. 



South Hartford, N. Y. — Auroras 1st, 2d, intense red 19th. 



PoughTieepsie, N.Y. — Auroras 22d, 25th, 31st, red 19th, white 21st. 



Garrison''s, N. Y. — Auroral light 25tli ; cold, snowy month. 



Neiv Yorlc City. — Auroras 8th, colored beams 21st, white 25th and 

 30th; misty rain, snow 12th, 13th ; snow, rain 16th, snow 17th. 



Gooperstoicn, N. Y. — Eobin 15th, (one seen in January;) gale of 27th 

 not very severe here ; a foot of snow in woods on 31st. 



Gouverneur, N. Y. — Nearly a foot of snow 13th; bluebirds 14th ; robins 

 31st. 



HortJi Hammond, JSF. Y. — Driving snows all day 13th, 16th 17th, 27th;. 

 crows 16th ; maple sugar 29th ; blackbirds 30th. 



Houseville, X. Y. — Snow, twenty-eight inches 13th; hard snow squalls 

 16th, 17th ; auroras 24th, 26th, 31st ; snow with gale 27th ; robins 31st. 



Leyden, N. Y. — Auroras 1st, 25th, 30th, 31st ; seventeen inches snow 

 13th, seven inches 10th ; bluebirds 25th ; thrush 31st. Snow gone ; no 

 freshets. 



Utica, K r.— Auroras 6th, 23d, 24th, bright 1st, 25th, 30th, 31st ; 

 snow all day, strong southeast wind 10th ; gale all 27th ; robin 30th. 



South Trenton, N. Z.— Beautiful aurora 25th; robin 29th; bluebird 

 30th ; wild geese 31st. Snow on fifteen days, (25.5 inches but drifted, 

 poor sleighing,) now fifteen inches in woods; rain on five days. 



Cazenovia, iV. Y. — March snow fall 61.25 inches on sixteen days. 



Depauville, N. Y.— Auroras 1st, 4th, 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th, 31st ; se- 

 vere snow, seventeen inches, 13th, another 16th, 17th, (banks six feet.) 

 Month 3.1° below average of six years, and 1.2° above mean of last 

 March. 



Palermo, X. Y. — Severest snow-storms of the winter 12th and 13th, 

 16th ; east gale all 27th ; robins 29th ; bluebirds 30th ; blackbirds 31st. 



Nichols, N. Y. — Snows, six inches 7th, six inches 13th, two to three 



