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standing which the ice remained on the ground 

 as large as when it fell. Some flakes of it were 

 found and brought in so long after as the second 

 day, which measured from six to eight inches 

 long, and at that time were two fingers at least 

 in thickness. 



On representing to the Governor the distress 

 the settlers had suffered, whose farms had lain 

 in the course of the shower, that relief was 

 given them as their situations required. 



Only 26 persons lost their lives in the year 

 1795, which certainly was much fewer than 

 could be expected. Happy indeed would it be, 

 if at the close of 1795, the settlement could be 

 found unincumbered by those, who like other 

 beasts of prey, sought only whom they might 

 devour ; and it is particularly distressing to 

 observe, that the several depredations commit- 

 ted, were on the properties of such persons as 

 implicated those about them as being accessaries, 

 though in many cases unjusly no doubt. It 

 should be considered, that when a house was to 

 be robbed, the plunderers must be aware, tha$ 

 where nothing was, nothing could be got, 



