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SotitMngton, Conn. — Gardening and plowing Stli; snow drifts gono 

 14tli ; aurora 24th ; thunder-showers 28th. 



ColehrooJc, Conn. — Snows, slight, 3d and 4th ; three inches 6th ; heavy 

 rain ISth. 



Moriches, N'. Y. — Eain 2d, 3d, mixed with snow 4th, 5th, Gth ; aurora 

 25th ; vivid lightning, thunder with some rain 28th. 



Foughkee2)sic, H. Y. — Auroras 1st, 25th, 29th ; thunder-storm 28th. 



Garrisons, TV. Y. — Storm 3d to 6th ; frost 30th. 



N'ew Yorlc City. — Snow, rain, sleet, snow 4th, 5th, Gth ; aurora 25th ; 

 gale, then hail and thunder-shower, 28th. 



Newhurg, N. Y. — IS^o "April showers;" only one thunder- shower. 



Bannerville, K T.— Auroras 1st, 26th, 29th ; freshets 16th to 25th. 



Gouverneur, N. Y. — Blackbirds 1st ; ice out of Oswegatchie 8th. 



North Hammond, N. Y. — Robins 1st ; St. Lawrence open 11th ; frogs 

 12th ; snow 21st ; swallows 26th. Season dry, backward ; little grain 

 sowed. 



Houseville, N. Y. — Auroras 2d, 7th, 28th ; snow nearly gone 9th. 



Leyden, N. Y. — Magnificent red aurora, equal to that in 1839, but less 

 extent and diu^ation, 7th; pewees 9th; liverwort, frogs 17th; thrush. 

 23d. Warm and pleasant April ; snow gone by 15th without freshets. 



Utica, N. r.— Auroras 1st, 2d, 7th, 21st, 27th, 28th, magnificent 25th; 

 ice 8th, 9th, 26th; swallows 16th. Little rain, no thunder, no lightning ; 

 solar spots visible every clear day ; vegetation forward. 



South Trenton, N. Z.— No rain till 27th, then showers till 22d. No 

 thunder yet this year. 



Cazenovia, N. Y.— Frosts 26th, 29th, 30th ; auroras 25th, 28th. 



Bepanville, K Y.— Auroras 1st, 2d, 3d, 7th, 12th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 25th^ 

 28th; robins 1st; pewees 4th ; sleighing gone 6th; frogs 14th; black, 

 birds 21st. 



Palermo, N. Y. — Last sleighing 1st; pewees 9th; wrens 22d; daffo- 

 dills 25th ; barn swallows 26th. Warmest April in seventeen years. 

 • Nichols, N. r.— Snow gone 6th, drifts 20th ; freeze 29th, 30th. Month 

 ended cold and dry. From October to May snow-fall was 99.5 inches. 



Himrods, N. Y. — Rains 17th to 20th, raised Crooked Lake ten inches ; 

 auroras 16th, 21st, 25th. 



Little Genesee, N. Y. — Frogs 13th ; snow gone 17th ; thunder-shower 

 24th. 



Buffalo, N. r.— Lake Erie open 16th; thunder 24th. Month 4° 

 warmer than average of twelve years; vegetation a fortnight earlier 

 than last year. 



NewarT{, N. J, — Cloudy till 7th ; bright aurora 25th ; thunder-gust 

 28th. Month nearly 2o.5 warmer than average of twenty-six Aprils — 

 warmest, 1844, 54^.31 ; coldest, 1857, 43°.40. Average rain in twenty- 

 six Aj)ril8, 3.609 inches. 



Bio Grande, N. J. — Bright red and white aurora 23d ; thunder-shower 

 28th. 



Moorestoicn, N. J. — On 15th mercury at 82°, at 2 p. m.; an east wind 

 reduced it 20^ in thirty minutes, and 38° in a few hours ; thunder, rain, 

 hail 28th. 



Neiv Germantoicn, N. J. — Thunder-shower 18th, with hail 29th ; auro- 

 ras 24th, 25th ; plowing for corn 30th. 



Newjield, N. J. — Five days' storm ended in two inches snow on 5th; 

 birds and frogs gleeful 9th; red-maple blossoms 14th, peach 20th ; auro- 

 ras 24th, 25th. 



Greenwich, N. J: — Rain, hail, snow 30th ultimo to 5th ; peach blossoms 



