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February 19. — Mount Pleasant, Iowa. — The ground has frozen to the 

 depth of about fourteen inches. 



February 20. — New Bedford, Massachusetts. — The ice nearly frozen enough 

 for crossing by pedestrians above the bridge. 



February 20. — Urbana, Ohio — Ice four inches thick on the ponds. 



February 20-24. — Augusta, Illinois. — Roads dry and dusty. 



February 22. — Algona, Iowa. — River commencing to break; ice bulging; 

 24th, ice afloat in the river and water rising; 28th, river frozen over again. 



February 24. — New Bedford, Massachusetts. — Ice gone below the bridge, 

 and very little remaining above. 



February 24. — Beloit, Wisconsin. — The Rock river opened and became 

 quite free of ice. 



February 24. — Muscatine, Iowa. — The last horse and wagon crossed the 

 ice on the river this morning; 25th, ice started and moved a short distance; 

 26th, ice started and moved a short distance; 27th, ice started and moved a 

 short distance. It is not usual for the ice to start without going out. 



February 24. — Elkhorn City, Nebraska. — Elkhorn river open. 



Febi^iary 2i. — Bellevue, Nebraska. — The ice broke up on the 24th very 

 gradually, and running the remainder of the month. 



February 26. — Onawa, Iowa. — Missouri river free from ice. The ferry- 

 boats between Council Bluffs and Omaha (sixty miles south) commenced 

 their trips on the 24th. The ice was entirely disintegrated by the heat of 

 the sun and disappeared without any rise of water or rain; the thickness of 

 the ice was about twenty inches. Depth of ground frozen, one foot and six 

 inches in the early part of January, where but little snow lay upon the 

 ground; 29th, frost not yet out of the ground. 



February 27. — New Bedford, Massachusetts. — Considerable ice formed on 

 the west side of the river, but drifted off shore in the course of the day. 



February 29. — New Bedford, Massachusetts. — River free of ice and very 

 little frost in the ground. 



February 29. — Seneca Falls, New York. — The winter has passed and not 

 a sleigh has made its appearance in our streets. The ice in Cayuga lake 

 is disappearing. The Seneca river and the Seneca and Cayuga canal is now 

 free from,ice in this vicinity. 



February 29. — New Lisbon, Ohio. — Muddy; frost all out of the ground. 



February 29. — Kelley's Island, Ohio. — During nearly the whole of the 

 month the channel between the island and the peninsula has been obstructed 

 by floating ice, so much so that the mail crossed but three times from the 

 6th instant to the close of the month. Sandusky bay was open on the 6th 

 instant, and for a few days thereafter it was possible to cross the bay in 

 boats; but on the 17th it was again frozen over, and continued closed until 

 the 28th, when the schooner Zouave succeeded in getting out and reaching 

 the island. 



February 29. — Iowa Falls, Iowa. — The ice is partly broken up and gorged 

 in several places, and backed the water up until the river is bank full. 



METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS. 



February 2. — Embarrass, Wisconsin. — Shooting star seen towards the 

 northeast, going southwest, at 9 p. m. 



February 2. — Fort Rilej', Kansas. — Shooting star in the northeast at 8.30 

 p. m. 



February 7. — Waverly, Illinois. — A shooting star observed crossing the 

 lower limb of Ursa Major on an angle of about forty-five degrees, disappear- 

 ing about four degrees above the horizon. Another noticed at 9 o'clock the 

 same evening as it shot across the head of the same constellation at about 

 the same angle, disappearing as it left the constellation. 

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