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xNOTES OF THE WEATHER-DECEMBER, 1871. 



Mount Desert^ Me. — A gale in tlie night blew down chimneys and car- 

 ried off the snow 23d. 



Montville, Me. — Penobscot Eiver frozen for the first time 1st; snow 

 during the night 7th. 



^Yest Waterville, 3fe. — Sleet, hail, and rain 4th; snow 7th, 10th, 14th, 

 23d, 27th, and 2Uth. 



Oxford, Me. — Coldest day in four years 21st. 



Lishon, Me. — Teams cross Androscoggin Kiver on ice about nine days 

 sooner than usual for the last ten years 1st. Fine display of aurora bor- 

 ealis in the evening 8th. First sleighing 19th. 



Standish, 2le. — Snow fell on seven days, and rain on twelve; warm 

 days 24th and 25th. 



Istratford, N. R. — Wells low; some small streams freezing and dry- 

 ing up ; mills doing but little, some have stopped. Snow on eighteen 

 days, seventeen inches in all. 



Tamicorth, IST. R. — A very cold December. Snow enough for good 

 sleighing ; the ground is frozen two feet deep. Swamps are quite dry, 

 wells and streams are low. 



Crqftshuri/, Yt. — A month remarkable for sudden changes. Snow fell 

 on twenty days, and rain on three. 



WoodstocJc, Vt. — Ice in the river twenty inches thick 22d ; wells and 

 streams low. 



JVeflr *S'*. Albans y Yt. — Heavy vdud during the night 23d; poor sleigh- 

 ing 31st. 



West CharJottej Yt. — First three days beautiful, with the haze of In- 

 dian summer ; mouth unusually cold. 



Castletoii, Vt. — Thunder-storm south and southeast 23d; have been 

 but few phenomena this month ; very cloudy. 



JS^ew Bedford, Mass. — IsTo ice in the river ; no snow on the ground ; 

 ver}^ little frost ; roads muddy 31st. 



Cambridge, Mass. — Eain 4th, 23d, and 26th; snow on nine days, not 

 enough altogether for two days' sleighing. 



North BUlerica, Mass. — Snow nearly gone ; ice-cutting suspended ; 

 streams pretty full 31st. 



Newport, E. I. — Half-inch of snow, the first of the season, 7th ; a gale 

 from the south, and copious showers from 1 to 4 a. m. 24th. 



MoricJies, N. Y. — Eemarkably mild and beautiful 24th. 



Argyle, N. Y. — The month noted for violent changes of temperature. 



Brooldyn, N. Y. — A singular storm, commencing with snow, changing 

 to sleet, hail, and rain in succession, 29th ; stars visible 21 evenings. 



Glasco, JY. Y. — Hudson closed from Albany to Eondout 6th ; thunder 

 and lightning 31st. 



2liddlebur(jli, N. Y. — The afternoon and night of the 23d a gale ot 

 "hot south wind" carried off 8 inches of snow, broke up the ice 10 inches 

 thick in Schoharie Eiver, and raised the water very high, causing serious 

 damage. 



Cooperstoicn, N. T. — Otsego Lake closed 21st; a very changeable 

 month — severely cold and very mild ; good sleighing for a week, in the 

 middle of the month ; none on the 31st. 



Gouverneitr, N. Y. — Heavy thunder, sharp lightning, and high wind 

 at 4 p. m. 23d. 



Bejmnville, N. Y.— Twenty rainy days during the month. 



