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ance of forest leaves. In 1835 woods began to look green about Api-il 20 ; in 

 1856, April 25; in 1857, May 8 ; in 1858, May 21, woods quite green, and 

 apple trees in bloom; in 1859, April 25 ; in 1860, April 10; in 1861, April 25; 

 in 1862, April 26. 



THUNDER-STORMS AND DISTANT LIGHTNING. 



April 3. — At Chattanooga, Tennessee. 



April 5. — At Olatha, Kansas. 



April 6. — At Fort Rilej, Manhattan, Kansas ; Elk Horn City, Nebraska. 



April 7. — In Illinois and Iowa. 



April 8. — In (3hio, Indiana, and Illinois. 



April 12. — At Beaufort, South Carolina. 



April 18. — At Beaufort, South Carolina. 



April 21. — At Harrisonville, Missouri. 



April 22. — At Harrisonville, Missouri. 



April 23. — In Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania. 



April 25. — At Silver Spring, Tioga, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. 



Aj^ril 26. — At Garrisons, New York ; Manchester, Illinois ; Harrisonville, 

 Missouri ; Fort Riley, Kansas. 



April 27. — Progress, New Jersey ; Philadelphia, Nazareth, Pennsylvania ; 

 Allentown, Harrisonville, Fox Creek, Missouri. 



Apr^d 28. — At Manchester, Illinois. 



April 30. — At Nazareth, Pennsylvania ; Chattanooga, Tennessee. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Sandwicli, MassacJiusctts. — April 14. — The wind changed to southwest at 3.30 

 p. m., thus ending a northeast storm, or succession of storms, of twenty days' 

 duration, during which time the wind had not a particle of south in it. It 

 has been due east once or twice, and also twice W.N W., and only this morning 

 is said to have been due west ; but I cannot record this from iny own observa- 

 tion. During this period, in the course of fifteen days, including two days of 

 March, I have registered the thermometer sixteen different times at precisely 

 38^, showing a remarkable uniformity of temperature. From March 25 to 

 April 14, inclusive, the entire range of the thermometer was but 13.5^, and with 

 the exception of one instance but 10^. 



West field, Massachusetts. — The range of the thermometer has been much less 

 than usual for April. 



MoricTics, Long Island, Neic Yo7k. — April 4. — The tides for some days here 

 have been unprecedented in character, since we have observed, nine years. The 

 nearest inlet. Fire Island, is thirty miles west. An easterly wind causes low 

 tides in the river and bay, and a west wind, by driving the waters east, causes 

 high tide for days, the variation being but about three feet from one extreme to 

 the other. To-day, April 4, contrary to all precedent within our knowledge, the 

 wind is east, and has been easterly, or northeasterly, for several days, yet the 

 *ide has been very high all day. Hence we infer that the storm on the Atlantic 

 has been one of unusual severity. April 6. — The tides have fallen two feet 

 since the 4th ; quite low at sunset. The A^ariation is seldom more than two and 

 a half feet, ordinarily but a few inches, and that depends on the wind. 



Fomfret, Connecticut. — The temperature of April was 2.33^ below the mean 

 of the last tcai years. The last two weeks of March, and the first two weeks of 

 April, were marked by a constant and strong northeast wind — rough, unhealthy, 

 searching every bone of the infirm. 



North Argyle, Neic York. — Last snow of winter disappeared April 21. 



