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ordinary mildness of the air, it had been generally free from 
the grass had remained almost uniformly green, nor 
had grain and other green vegetables on. the injuries 
which usually result from open winters. e 28th of March 
(the time already mentioned when the iv a was at — 
69) was —— by the frogs, by a concert unusually merry 
for the seaso 
Notwithstanding the uncommon warmth of the winter in 
this state, and in the states south of us, yet according to 
pees Sota papers, the same period was distinguished at cer- 
n places north of us, for unusually cold weather. The 
winter was reported to have been very severe in Nova Sco- 
tia and at Detroit; and, at Green Bay on the 4th of March, 
the: ‘mercury was 10 degrees below zero. In April, though 
weather was mild, yet the progress of vegetation was re- 
tarded by cool nights. Peach trees began to blossom on 
the 20th, which was no earlier than the same fact was ob- 
served in 1827. On the 7th and 8th of one month, the frost 
returned with — Severity throughout th southern states. 
At Georgetown in South Carolina, the i ewe an inch thick 
although on dceoatt of the unusual mildness of the prece- 
ding months, summer fruits were in great forwardness, and 
isskivctrien’ were fully ripe. 
Early in May our fruit trees were in blossom and gave in- 
dications of unusual abundance,—a promise which was not 
very well fulfilled. ‘The spots on the sun, which have ap- 
peared in extraordinary numbers, the greater part of the years 
were particularly remarkable during this month. On th 
22nd, the telescope with a power of 40, revealed eleven spota 
on the solar disk, consisting chiefly of clusters. One of t 
spots was very large and was probes by an Pe 
penumbra. About six inches of rain fell this m 
nding c _In showers, it eioutriloatid to bring “a 
tation to a state of great perfection, and our city* was 
aps never more verdant than in this and the following 
month. About the 20th of June, commenced a period of 
uncommonly wet and sultry weather, which lasted until Au- 
gust. A little previous to this time, the hopes of the hus- 
bandman were highly elated by the prospect of most abun- 
dant crops of grass and grain ; but the continual rains which 
succeeded, prevented his securing either, without great dam- 
fe es ald public squares, and numerous forest and fruit trees and 
gardens,— 
