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lived for three to four thousand years, they are standard evi- 

 dences that the changes of temperature cannot have been great, 

 or they must have been destroyed. 



When Strabo, the most faithful of writers, described the cli- 

 mate of England, at the site of London, eighteen hundred and 

 forty years ago, so exact is his statement of the fogs and drizzle, 

 with an occasional |gleara of sunshine, -fffpi Trjv fiiscyjfi.^piav (about 

 noon-day,) I feel disposed to drop my long habit of keeping a 

 metereological table. 



The seasons have so far been adapted to our use w4th a preci- 

 sion which we may religiously wonder at; and the amazing me- 

 chanism of our world, which the illustrious astronomer La Place, 

 in his Mechanique Celeste, demonstrates to have maintained its 

 heavenly motion for the last two thousand years to the hundredth 

 part of one second, or the tenth of a wink of the eye ! 



Dr. Peck — Fourteen yeai-s ago we had no frost in the ground, 

 and a great deal of plowing was done in January. February was 

 a hard month, and the Spring was backward. 



Solon Robinson — The winter of 1827-8, in Cincinnati, was a 

 very open one, and the following Summer a very productive one 

 of all tree fruits. I think next Summer will be so, since there 

 was a great growth of new wood, and that has become well 

 ripened. 



Mr. Wm. H. Weeks, (deaf and dumb,) presented syrup made 

 by him from Sorghum (Chinese sugar cane,) last fall, at York- 

 town, in the county of Westchester, New-York, by very humble 

 means, viz : The juice was expressed from the canes by two planks 

 and their leverage. On tasting this syrup it was found fully equal 

 in richness to any molasses. 



Wra. Lawton, of New Rochelle, presented apples, called longi- 

 tude apples, because of their being ordinarily marked with black 

 colures from stem to flower point — some perfect, others partially 

 marked, many unmarked — the skin yellowish. 



Mr. Meigs said that he had noticed this singularly striated 

 apple in our markets for about ten years past. 



Alanson Nash requested the Club to take up, at the next meet- 

 ing, the interesting subject of the red cattle of New England, a 



