MARCH. 



And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds, but 

 the wind passeth by and cleanseth them. 

 Fair weather cometh out of the north. 



Job xxxvii. 21, 22. 



Every month, like a good servant, brings 

 its own character with it. This is a circum- 

 stance which, the more I have studied the 

 Seasons, the more I have been led to admire. 

 Artificial as the division of the months may 

 be deemed by some, it is so much founded in 

 nature, that no sooner comes in a new one 

 than we generally have a new species of wea- 

 ther, and that instantaneously. This curious 

 fact is more particularly conspicuous in the 

 earlier months, there being greater contrast in 

 them. In comes January, — and let the wea- 

 ther be what it might before, immediately sets 

 in severe cold and frost : in February, wet — 

 wet — wet, which, the moment March enters, 

 ceases — and lo ! instead — even on the very first 

 of the month, there is a dry, chill air, with 



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