FREEZING OF OUR RIVERS. 



By J. McG. Baxter. 



Noticing in Vol. 6, iDart 3rd, of the Bulletin of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of New Brunswick a list of the dates of opening and 

 closing of the St. John river to navigation from 1825 to 1910. I 

 thoutrht it might be interesting and perhaps instructive to com- 

 pare these dates with those of the Miramichi, as I have a list 

 of the dates of the opening and closing of the Miramichi, although 

 not quite so far back, viz. only to 1830 ; still that is far enough for 

 comparison. These notes were taken hy the late Hon. Richard 

 Hutchison and after his death continued by ourselves, so are 

 pretty reliable. I am sorry not to be able to add the Restigouche 

 to these ; but I do not know where I could procure the data in that 

 region. 



ST. JOHN 



MIRAMICHI Difference in Days. 



Year 



1830 

 1831 

 1832 

 1833 

 1834 

 1835 

 1836 

 1837 

 1838 

 1839 

 1840 

 1841 

 1842 

 1843 

 1844 

 1845 

 1846 

 1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 

 1852 

 1853 



p 22 

 m 3 

 p 18 

 p 21 



P 11 

 m 3 

 p 27 

 p 19 

 p 2 

 p 27 

 p 7 

 p 20 

 p 13 

 p 15 

 m 3 

 m 8 

 P 

 P 

 P 

 P 

 P 

 P 



14 

 6 

 20 

 6 

 26 

 12 

 p 15 

 m 4 



