MARCH. 



EVERY month, like a good servant, brings 

 its own character with it. This is a circum- 

 stance which, the more I have studied the 

 Seasons, the more I have been led to admire. 

 Artificial as the division of the months may 

 be deemed by some, it is so much founded in 

 nature, that no sooner comes in a new /one 

 than we generally have a new species of 

 weather, and that instantaneously. This cu- 

 rious fact^ is more particularly conspicuous in 

 the earlier months, there being greater con- 

 trast in them. In comes January, and let 

 the weather be what it might before, imme- 

 diately sets in severe cold and frost : in 

 February, wet wet wet, which, the moment 

 March enters, ceases and lo ! instead even 

 on the very first of the month, there is a dry, 

 chill air, with breaks of sunshine stealing here 



