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NOTES OF THE WEATHER, MARCH, 1867. 
FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
The preevding tables show partially the extent of the extreme cold about the 
14th to the 16th of the month; in the following notes a few selections have 
been made illustrating the suddenness and severity of this cold at some of the 
southern stations. This depression prevailed over the whole country, as far as 
registers have been received, but it did not everywhere give the minimum of the 
month : 
St. Anne, Canada East—March 2.—A sudden gale from the west at noon. 
Thermometer at 7 a. m., 29°; at 7a.m. next day, 7° below zero. 21st.—Icein 
the river St. Lawrence breaking up; crows beginning to return. 28th, a great 
deal of floating ice going slowly down the river. 31st, river pretty clear of ice 
except along the south bank. , 
Gardiner, Me—The mean temperature of March was 3.63° below the 
average of the month for thirty-one years; the amount of moisture was two 
inches more than the average. 
Rumford, Me—There was an unusual amount of snow this month, thirty- 
five inches in all; on the 31st it lay three feet deep on a Jevel. 
West Waterville, Me—March 31.—Sleighing of the season not quite over, 
though the roads are getting somewhat bare. 
*Tasbon, Me—March 31.—In many places out of the village the snow is 
now a foot deep and sleighing quite good; good crossing on the ice at South- 
west Bend. 
Cornish, Me.—March 18.—The snow of yesterday was the heaviest of the 
winter ; it is fifteen inches deep on a level. 31st—The mean temperature of 
the month was 1.65° below the average for the last thirty-five years. 
Concord, N. H—March 17.—Snow all day; the heaviest snow storm of 
the season. 31st——The snow has not yet entirely departed, but is going grad- 
ually. The roads have become dry in patches here and there. 
Stratford, N. H.—Kighteen and a half inches of snow fell on the 17th and 
18th. 
Brandon, Vt—March 10.—Ice on Otter creek breaking up. &3th.—Otter 
creek clear of ice. 31st—First appearance of bluebirds. 
Randolph, Vt-—March 7.—Snow fell about nine inches deep, but solid and 
compact ; there has been no sleighing until now since the first of February. 
Barnet, Vt—Twenty-seven inches of snow fell during the month— 
There was so little snow on the ground in the coldest weather that it froze very 
deep, some three feet, and will require considerable rain and warm weather to 
thaw it to the bottom. 
New Bedford, Mass—March 17.—A severe snow set in about 7$ p. m. 
yesterday, and continued till 10 or 11 p. m. this day; depth about four- 
teen inches. The wind changed to northwest at 3 p.m. to-day. This was the 
hardest snow storm of the winter. 24th.—Crocus flowers first noticed. 31st.—'The 
flower buds of the silver poplar begin to open; but few vestiges of snow drifts 
remain. 
Topsfield, Mass—March 31.—The snow is disappearing rapidly, though a 
large amount still remains. 
Mendon, Mass.—March 31.—Many banks of snow from two to three feet 
deep ; very little frost in the ground. 
Lunenburg, Mass.—March 16, 17.—Severe snow storm; twelve inches 
of snow, a good deal drifted. 31st—The month closes with very bad trav- 
elling, and snow drifts in some places six to eight feet in depth. 
N. Billerica, Mass—March 5.—Two blackbirds noticed. _12th.—Robins ap- 
pear; blackbirds common. 
