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Schenectady and Canajoharie, vegetation advances more rapidly 

 than the average of tlio state, and at Johnstown and Fairfield less 

 ^o. The difference between Canajoharie and Fairfield, though 

 only about 20 miles distant, is about a fortnight, which is owing 

 to the elevation of the latter place. Utica may be considered 

 a fair representative of the climate of the state. The vegetation 

 at Utica agrees within a day with the average forwardness and its 

 progress through the state. 



4th District — North and northwest of the Valley of the Mohawk. 

 Places where observations have been made, are Mexico, Belville, 

 Lowville, Gouverneur, Ogdensburgh, Potsdam, Malone and Platts- 

 turgh. 



The mean temperature at Ogdensburgh is 44*^ . 27. Gouverneur, 

 ihe same; Plattsburgh 44*^.65. These are temperatures due to 

 latitude and elevation. In this whole district we have the charac- 

 teristics of a more rigid climate ; low mean temperature, extreme 

 cold in winter, great range of the thermometer, backward seasons 

 and early frosts. Gouverneur is colder by over one degree, and 

 appears to be the coldest place but one in the state from which 

 records are received. It stands unrivalled as it regards extreme 

 cold in the winter. Ogdensburgh is less liable to extremes of heat 

 and cold than the average of the state, from its vicinity to a large 

 body of water. 



5th District — Embracing a region south and southwest of the 

 Valley of the Mohawk. Observations have been made at the fol- 

 lowing places: Pompcy, Homer, Cazenovia, Hamilton, Bridge- 

 water, Oxford, Hartwick, Cherry-Valley, Delhi. Mean tempera- 

 ture atPompey, for 14 years, was 44°. 9 ; Cherry-Valley, 44°. 20 j 

 Delhi, 44°. 92. These temperatures are due to elevation and lati- 

 tude. Pompey is the coldest place reported in the state, being 3° 

 .52 lower than the average of the state. It is situated on high 

 ground, and yet the thermometer does not sink so low in winter^ 

 nor do the autumnal frosts occur so early as in the state generally. 

 At all other places in this district the thermometer sinks lower 

 than the average of the state by 4° to 11°, and the autumnal 

 frosts occur earlier by four to thirteen days. Robins appear earlier 

 in this part of the state, the vegetation is uniformly backward, 

 though less so than at places in the northern parts of the state which 

 have the same mean temperature. 



