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from Muddy river to Boston. It was frozen as far out to sea as one could discern. The 
great bay at Virginia was also frozen over, and all their great rivers. , 
In 1779, December, a correspondent of the National Intelligencer, resident in Virginia, 
says, Colonel Baylor’s regiment of horse crossed the Potomac river at Georgetown upon the 
ice on their march to the Carolinas. 
In 1780, January 14,the cold was so intense that the mercury sunk into the bulbs of the 
thermometers. ‘That winter the gentleman thinks was 40 degrees colder thanthis. The ice 
upon James river was 38 inches thick, and the Chesapeake bay was so completely bridged 
with ice that many persons crossed over upon it from Annapolis to Kent island. A person 
who had the traditions from his parents assures us that loaded wagons passed over the bay at 
the points designated. An old revolutionary officer, who resides near the correspondent of 
the Intelligencer, states, that on the 7th March, 1780, he rode from Falmouth to Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia, upon theice of the Rappahannock river, in company with hisregiment, which 
was returning to Virginia from the north. 
The cold weather continued without intermission from the 10th of December, 1779, to the 
9th of March, 1780. 
Ju 1797, January 8, Governor Sargeant, of Ohio, says that the thermometer stood 18 
degrees below zero. 
In 1819, January 20, the mercury in a thermometer at Norfolk, kept by Mr. W. G. Lyford, 
in the sun was at 101 degrees. 
In 1821, January 26, the river from Norfolk to Portsmouth, and down to the bight of Cra” 
ney island, was completely frozen. 
In 1822, January 25, the thermometer stood at 14 degrees. 
In 1527, January 21, the river was frozen across from Norfolk to Portsmouth, and on the 
succeeding day from Lambert’s Point to Craney island. 
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The past winter has been severe in Europe, but the cold has by no means 
been unprecedented, as will be seen by the following : 
In 1133 the Po was frozen from Cremona to the sea. 
In 1234 loaded carts and wagons crossed the Adriatic in front of Venice. 
In 1305 all the rivers of France were frozen over. : 
In 1324 it was possible to travel from Denmark, Lubec, and Dantzic, on the ice. 
In 1334 all the rivers in Provence and Italy were frozen. At Paris the frost lasted two 
months and 20 days. 
A. D, 1433 frost commenced at Paris the last of December and continned during three 
months, less nine days ; recommenced towards the end of March and continued until the 
17th of April. The same year it snowed in Holland 40 consecutive days. 
A. D- 1460 the Danube and the Rhine frozen. 
In 1468 wine was reduced to ice in France and cut with an axe. In 1544 a similar sever- 
ity of cold occurred, and a similar operation became necessary in France. 
A. D. 1493 the port of Genoa frozen. 
A. D. 1507 the port of Marseilles frozen in all its extent. 
same city on the day of Epiphany. 
A. D. 1568 froin the 11th to the 21st of December, the Rhone was passed on the ice. 
The winter of 1570-’71, from the end of November to the end of February, was so severe 
that ail the rivers, even those of Languedoc and Provence, were so completely frozen that 
they were passed with loaded carriages. 
A. D. 1709 (perhaps the most intense season which has ever occurred within the range of 
history) the Adriatic sea, and the Mediterranean, from Genoa by Marseilles to Cette, frozen. 
All the rivers and narrow seas of Europe frozen, 
Three feet ot snow fell at the 
FACTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 
Fruit CuLtrure In Firorwwa.—The following extracts are from a letter rela- 
tive to the culture of lemons and other fruits of Florida, from Manatee county, 
Florida: 
The lemons have a rough, thick skin when first pulled, but allowed to wilt ina cool, 
airy left, the skin becomes thin and soft, and the lemon is full of fine sour juice. In the 
wilted state I think the limes and lemons would bear shipping much better than when just 
pulled, but we have no direct communication with the northern cities, and thus far find no 
sale for lemons or limes. If, therefore, we can find some use for the expressed juice, it will 
be of great service to this region, for the lemon and lime both thrive well on pine lands, bear 
at an earlier age than the orange, and that on lands that will nut produce the orange to any 
advantage. ‘lhe guava also does well on poor land in this region and all south of this— 
