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FROST, SNOW, AND ICE. 



Cornish, Maine. — October 10. — Ground frozen an inch this morning. 



!-teuhcn, Maine. — October 10. — Ground frozen hard this morning. 22d, white 

 frost. 26t,h, very-white frost. 27th, verj white frost, ground frozen hard. Ice 

 in a pail of water did not melt through the day. 30th, white frost. 



West WaterviUc. Mai?ie. — October 10. — First general frost to kill potato 

 tops la^^t night. 12th, ice formed last night as thick as window-glass; this is the 

 first ice. 27th, profuse white frost last night. 



Lisbo7i, Maine. — October 1. — Quite severe frost. 9th, 10th, and 11th, heavy 

 frost. 27th, ice an eighth of an inch thick. 30th, ice this morning a quarter of 

 ail inch thick. 



CornishciVe, Maine. — October 10. — Heavy frost last night and ground frozen. 



Z/ce, Maine. — October 9. — First snow of the season at 10 a. m. ; melted as it 

 fell. 28th, snowed in the night one inch. 



Bar?istead, New Hampshire. — October 10. — Ice in the morning half an inch 

 thick ; ground frozen an inch. 



Strafford, New Ha/npshire. — October 9. — Ground white with snow this morn- 

 ing. 10th, Mountains white with snow to-day, and the same every day to the 

 end of the month. 



ahelhurnc. New Hampshire. — October 1. — Frost this morning. 9th, snow- 

 squalls on the mountains. 10th, ice a sixteenth of an inch thick on puddles. 

 14th, tops of mountains covered with snow, having an elevation of two thousand 

 feet. 24th, strawberries in blossom, in some places nearly as much so as they are 

 in June. 27th, frost. 30th, ground frozen in the road, half a.\\ inch. 



C arem'int, New Hampshire. — October 9. — Snow squall between 10 and 11 

 a. m. 10th, the first frost destructive to vegetation ; ice three-sixteenths of an 

 inch thick. 12th, a hard froat and freeze, finished what the 10th had left alive. 

 This season has been remarkable for the late date of the first killing frost. This 

 is the third year in which vegetables have been substantially untouched by frost 

 till about the middle of October, 



L'liienburg, Vermont. — October 10. — This morning ice was formed about a 

 quarter of an inch thick, and ploughed land frozen a little. 3ist, the first hard 

 frost of the season; ground frozen quite hard. Previous to this the autumn has 

 been remarkable. The linden trees in my yard have leaved out fully the second 

 tim'^, and many leaves came out on an elm. My woodbine has leaved out, and 

 grown two or three inches since first shedding its leaves; many strawberries are 

 in blossom, and somes blossoms are on an apple tree. The season had previously 

 been very dry, and though there were no severe frosts, and but little freezing, 

 yet leav.js were pretty generally off, and then the warm rain gave everything 

 new life and a great tendency to grow. 



Craftsh irij, Vermont. — October 1. — This morning occurred the first frost in 

 this locality this season that has touched the top leaves of late planted potatoes. 

 October 9, this morning the ground is white with the first snow; it disappeared 

 before night. October 30, water frozen this morning an eighth of an inch in 

 thickness, the first ice of the season. 



West Dennis, Massachusetts. — October 10. — First frost, ice formed where a 

 little water had been left in troughs. 



Sandicich, Massachusetts. — October 10. — Heavy white frost this morning. 

 30th and 31st, white frost. 



JMcndon, Massachusetts. — October 10 — Ice formed in still water. 



Bahlivinsville, Massachusetts. — October 13. — Sleet and snow. 20th, ground 

 frozoTi quite bard this morning 



Worcester, Massachusetts. — October 10, 12, and 22. — Frost. 



