540 Remarks upon the Winter of 1829-30, 
which continued during the remainder of that month, the 
greater part of January in the following year, and on to the 
end of the first week in February, a period, on the whole, 
of nearly two months. 
The weather, however, during all this time, was far from 
being equally severe. As the frost itself came on very gra- 
dually, so after its commencement the degree of cold was very 
gradually increased; and, for a few days, the range of the 
thermometer was arcounderales the mercury seldom rising 
above, nor yet falling many degrees below, the freezing point. 
But after the 21st the cold became greater ; and from the 
23d to the end of the month, during Ses interval the ther- 
mometer on one occasion descended to 15°, the mean tem- 
perature was only 26°2°.. Throughout the last fortnight of 
the year, snow fell more or less nearly every day, notwith- 
standing a high and rising barometer. This appeared, for 
the most part, in the character of flying storms from the 
north-east. 
It is remarkable that the commencement of the new year 
was characterised by more snow, which continued falling at 
intervals throughout the Ist of January, although the baro- 
meter, at 9 A.M. on that day, had reached the unusual eleva- 
tion of 30°61. ‘The temperature, however, at this time rose ; 
and from the 3d to the 8th, with the exception of one night, 
there was a slight interruption of the frost, attended at inter- 
vals by much fog and mizzling rain: still the thermometer, 
during that period, was seldom many degrees above the freez- 
ing point, and in only two instances as high as 40°. These 
occurred on the 5th and 7th of January, both of which were 
extremely fine days, and the only ones at all pleasurable 
to the feelings which had been experienced for upwards of 
three weeks. Indeed, on the second of these occasions, we 
were almost induced, from the promising appearance of the 
sky, to anticipate some decided change of weather; but our 
hopes were soon at an end. The very next night after the 
7th, the thermometer fell again several degrees below the 
freezing point, attended by more snow ; and from that time to 
the 7th of February there was scarcely any further variation 
in the weather at all, it being marked by one continued suc- 
cession of frost and snow, with keen winds, principally from 
the east and north-east ; or when no snow, by alternations of 
mist and sunshine. But though, in general respects, the wea- 
ther presented a very uniform character during this period, 
the author speaks of copious mists as generally accompanying the setting in 
of long frosts. 
