LETTER LXIII. 



To the same. 



S the frost in December 1784 was very extra- 

 ordinary, you, I trust, will not be displeased to 

 hear the particulars; and especially when I > pro- 

 mise to say no more about the severities of 

 winter after I have finished this letter. 1 



The first week in December was very wet, with 

 the barometer very low. On the 7th, with the 

 barometer at 28-5 came on a vast snow, which continued all that 

 day and the next, and most part of the following night ; so that by 

 the morning of the 9th the works of men were quite overwhelmed, 

 the lanes filled so as to be impassable, and the ground covered 



1 White here pretends to be still writing letters, but the pretence by this time 

 has become sufficiently transparent. ED. 



