Climate, &c. of We ashington County, Ohio. 211 
_ flock may be quadrupled in a short time. One cause of the 
health and rapid increase of sheep here, is the exemption 
from long, cold storms of rain and snow. 
he climate for placidity, may be compared to that of the 
western Pacific Ocean, subject to few excesses of airy eccen- 
tricity, high winds or storms of any kind being very uncom- 
mon. If ave a snow storm, the snow falls evenly and 
quietly, never drifting or thrown up into heaps by the wind, 
y in fact say we never have what is properly 
a “snow storm.” ‘The snow is usually attended with a gen- 
tle breeze from the north-west. Storms, when we have any, 
December. 
In the early settlement of the county, when the woods were 
fall of wild plants, neat cattle could live very comfortably 
the whole winter, without any assistance from man ; and at 
this time large numbers of hogs pass the winter, as indepen- 
dently as the deer and the bears, subsisting on nuts and 
acorns. Single individuals are sometimes destroyed by the 
bears or wolves, bat’ a gang a aay eps, “hogs are more 
than a match for a or a panther. An old hunter infor- 
med me that he once saw a large panther spring from a tree 
into a drove of woods hogs, who were aware of his approach, 
them is but comparatively small. 
The first settlers of the county landed =* *» mouth of the 
