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and though hanging in a larger mass from the 

 shrub, gave a greater variety of surfaces and 

 presented a curiously interesting sight. The 

 icicles clung not only to the leaf -edges, but to 

 leaf-stems and twigs, and when there was any 

 protuberance on the stems or stalks, such as those 

 caused by knots from whence the buds spring, 

 the hoar continued the same protuberant appear- 

 ance, and this fact showed the evenness and 

 regularity with which the process of addition by 

 congelation was continued. Although a good 

 many shrubs, both of deciduous plants and of 

 evergreens, were frosted all over their stems 

 and twigs, the majority of them were covered 

 with the hoar on their eastern side only. Even 

 the borders of turf showed the same appearance 

 on the side towards the east. 



Here and there a large expanse of turf would 

 be found whitened in places where the taller 

 spikes of grass had been depositories of the pre- 

 cipitated moisture frozen on them by the keen 

 east wind ; but along the eastern borders of such 

 turf the blades to a depth of some six inches 

 from the outer edges (next gravelled walks) 



