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ful in Canada* and that moft of the corn 

 has hardly ever arrived at perfect maturity. 



October. DURING this month the fields 

 were ploughed, and the weather was very 

 fine all the time. There was a little froft 

 for feveral nights, and on the 2th it 

 fnowed. Towards the end of this month 

 the trees began to fhed their leaves. 



November. THEY continued to plough 

 till the loth of this month, when the trees 

 had fhed all their leaves. Till the i8th 

 the cattle went out of doors, a few days 

 excepted, when bad weather had kept 

 them at home. On the i6th there was 

 ibme thunder and lightning. There was 

 not yet any ice in the river St. Lawrence 

 on the 24th. 



December. DURING this month it is 

 obferved, that the autumn has been much 

 milder than ufual. On the ifl a {hip could 

 {till fet fail for France ; but on the i6th 

 the river St. Lawrence was covered with 

 ice on the fides, but open in the middle. 



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and this makes the chief difference of the climate. There 

 is ftill another consideration, Peterjlurg lies near the fea, 

 and Tfaritjin in an inland country ; and, generally fpeakinj, 

 countries near the fea have been obferved to enjoy a milder 

 climate. Thefe few remarks will be, I believe, fumcienc 

 to enab'e every body to judge of the changes of the climate 

 in various countries, which, no doubt, grow warmer and 

 more temperate, as cultivation and population increafe. F 



