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much later than formerly : the harvest is not 

 finished until the first week of November ; and 

 the severity of winter does not commonly take 

 place, until the latter end of December. But 

 the whole course of the weather is become more 

 uncertain, variable and fluctuating than it was 

 in the uncultivated state of the country. 



It is in these particulars, the change that has 

 taken place in the heat of the earth, in its wet- 

 ness, in the snow, winds, weather and seasons, 

 that the change of climate in Nojth America 

 has principally appeared. That this change of 

 climate is much connected with, and greatly 

 accelerated by the cultivation of the country, 

 caiiiiot be doubted. But whether this cause is 

 sufiicient to account for all the phenomena, 

 which have attended the change of chmate in 

 the various parts of the earth, seems to be un- 

 •Cci't^in.* 



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