LABORS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE. 129 



Northborough, Mass., 42 16' N., 71 48' W., nearly. (From JOSEPH ALLEN, 



Esq.) 



March 16lh. This was a mild, pleasant day, wind S. W.; 

 some time during the night the wind shifted into the N. E. ; 

 and the 17th was raw, cold and cloudy wind pretty 

 strong from N. E. Early on the 18th, the snow began to 

 fall, and the wind to rise ; and through the day the storm 

 continued without intermission, though its violence abated 

 somewhat in the latter part of the afternoon. The snow 

 was quite moist, yet so great was the violence of the wind, 

 that it drifted a good deal, probably about six inches in 

 depth. 



Williams College, Mass., (N. W. corner of the state.) 42 30' N., 73 12' W. 



President Albert Hopkins states that from the 16th to the 

 afternoon of the 17th, the wind was N. W. ; and then chang- 

 ed to N. E. ; that it commenced snowing soon after break- 

 fast on the morning of the 18th, wind N., or perhaps a little 

 E. of N. On the 19th, it was from N. to N. W., and clear. 

 The thermometer varied only from 30.5 to 39 till the 19th, 

 when it rose to 43, wind very light. 



48. Concord, N. H., 43 12' N., 71 29' W. (From JOHN FARMER, Esq.) 



The storm was hardly felt here. The weather was 

 cloudy all day, on the 17th of March with the wind E. 

 and N. E. On the 18th a light snow commenced at noon, 

 and continued through the afternoon, enough to cover the 

 ground. 



The wind was brisk part of the day, from the N. E. 

 The highest point of temperature during the day was 33, 

 and the lowest 28. 



On the 19th, at 9, A. M., all appearances of a storm had 

 ceased, wind N. W. as it had been on the 16th. 



The thermometer stood as follows : 



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