LETTER LXII. 





To the same. 



HERE were some circumstances attending 

 the remarkable frost in January, 1776, so 

 singular and striking, that a short detail of 

 them may not be unacceptable. 



The most certain way to be exact will be 

 to copy the passages from my journal, which 

 were taken from time to time, as things oc- 

 curred. But it may be proper previously to remark that the 

 first week in January was uncommonly wet, and drowned with 

 vast rains from every quarter: from whence may l>e inferred, 

 as there is great reason to believe is the case, that intense 

 frosts seldom take place till the eaith is perfectly glutted and 



