SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF THE VALLEY OF THE MOHAWK. 



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TABLE in. Comparison of the forwardness of the seasons, with the average of the State during the same years. 



REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING TABLES. 



Most of these places lie in elevated valle3's, and show a pioportionably reduced tempe- 

 rature as compared with others in the same latitude but on a lower level. Pompey is the 

 coldest place reported in the State ; colder even than those in (lie extreme northern coun- 

 ties. It is situated on high ground, but still the temperature is lower than is due to its 

 elevation by over 1°. But it is rather remarkable that while this is ihe fact, the thermo- 

 meter does not sink so low there in the winter, nor do autumnal frosts occur so early as in 

 the State o-enerally. At all the other places in this section the tliermometer sinks lower 

 than the average of the State by 4° to 11°, and autumnal frosts occur earlier by four to 



thirteen days. 



The appearance of robins seems not to he a fair index of the relative forwardne.ss of the 

 spring at different places, as they appear earlier in this section than at any other in the 

 State ; and yet vegetation is uniformly backward, though not so much so a.s at places in 

 the northern part of the State which have the same mean temperature. 



