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 occurred. 

 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 be inferred, as there is great 

 reason to believe is the case, that intense frosts seldom take place till 



