232 Notes on certain paris of the Stazé of Ohio. 
3d of February, 1818, it commenced snowing in the night; 
and continued all that day, until 8 or 9 o’clock im the eve- 
ning, probably about eighteen hours. On the morning of 
the 4th, I measured the snow, and found it twenty-six inches, 
or more, on an average. ‘The wind was moderate, an 
from the north-east and east: The snow was but little drift- 
ed, and lay very evenly over the face of the earth. The 
of Febri easant and moderate. This was consider- 
ed the deepest snow, by ten or twelve inches, that has fallen 
open 
pended to the limb of a tree. With all this severity of cold, 
the Ohio river was not frozen across; it was full of floating 
ice, and during the night and morning of the 9th and 10th, 
threw up a continual cloud of vapour, which darkened the 
air; and freezing as it ascended, fell again in a moderate 
— x eee So intense was the cold, that there was 2 
‘Continual cracking and snapping, by the contraction of w 
in buildings and in trees. at aoid brandy, exposed in a 
tea-saucer to the open air, through the night of the 9th Feb. 
was found frozen to ice the next morning. Peach trees, sas- 
safras, and spice-bush, were either killed or materially m- 
ogwood, or cornus florida, was killed. 'The weather 
was colder at this time, by 10 or 12 degrees, than has been 
known since the country was first inhabited. 
In Barton’s Medical and Physical Journal, vol. Ist, page 
restore that at Rzodenbation, on the Muskingum, 
-ber, 1804, and also on the 21st Janna: thi 
| 304, an ) ; ry, 1805. But this 
Place is considerably. further north than Marietta, and the 
“Wanters are generally several degrees colder. 
the 23d of May, 1818, the thermometer, at 2, P- M. 
S$ 
Sie pal at- 138° in the sun. -The extremes of heat 
“uo cold im this year, were as great as are usually known 18 
the: United States, amounting to IZ19,. = er 
