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remarkable, only one thunderstorm of any severity, viz., 2 8th 

 August. The great snowstorm of 2gth December yielded 0^75 

 water, the snow having been of an average depth of 6 7 in., and 

 no drifts. O. P. C. 



MILTON ABBEY. The sharpest frost this year was on joth 

 December at 5 a.m. 28 degrees of frost. There has been very 

 little thunder, and no heavy fall of rain. C. H. PERKINS. 



