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of commencing his labours in the field at an early date: — 

 but the good tidings had scarcely been announced, and the 

 self-gratulations were scarcely made, before a complete re- 

 futation of the prognostic took place, by the occurrence of 

 severe cold very generally throughout the United States 

 and Canada: even parts of rivers that had not been frozen 

 during the preceding winter, were passed on the ice 

 with heavy loads. The weather continued unusually cold 

 as the spring advanced, and even rooms exposed to the 

 genial influence of a southern sun, in Philadelphia, were 

 not comfortable without fire in the morning and evening, 

 before the middle of June. In the country there were few 

 days during the whole summer in Pennsylvania, in which 

 fires were not required by sedentary persons, all day. Not a 

 week has passed since March, without the newspapers an- 

 nouncing the occurrence of frost and ice, in some parts of 

 the United States. At Quebec snow fell from the 12th to 

 18th April, and between those dates at Chilicothe, Ohio, 

 followed by sharp frosts. The peach trees there had been 

 previously in blossom. 



Snow fell on the 14th May at Albany,* and on the 5th & 

 Gth of June at Bangor in Maine, after a warm rain; also at 

 Peachham, in Vermont, on the 7th June, 6 inches deep. At 

 Montpelier, in Vermont, the weather was colder on the 6th 

 7th and 8th of that month, than ever had been known at that 

 season, and the snow was one foot deep on the hills in the 

 vicinity of the town. At Hallowell in Maine, snow fell in 

 the first week of June, and was followed by hard frost. The 

 spring was uniformly cold in Pennsylvania, and to the 

 south, so severe a drought was experienced, that many hun- 

 dred acres of wheat were ploughed up from a conviction 



* " Travellers arriving in the city from the westward, reported that the 

 country in many places had the appearance, of winl?-. the hills being as 

 white as in the month of January." * 



