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Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



■ Some of tlie coldest days of the present winter witli the temperature 

 at the hours of observation are given below : 



December 17, 



« 



18. 



January 



16, 



4( 



18, 



CC 



23, 



ii 



24, 



« 



25, 



u 



26, 



-17° 



-22 



-22 

 -22 

 -26 

 -39 



-17 

 -21 



IP. 



- 7^ 



- 1 



7 



■ 4 



-16 



- 2 



10 



8 



-15° 



- 3 

 8 



- 7 



-28 

 1 



- 7 



12 



For the sate of comparison, some of the coldest days noted on the 



register are added. 



u 



u 



u 



Jan. 4, 1835, 

 Dec. 16, 1835, 

 17, 1835, 

 Feb. 3, 1836, 



Jan. 4, 1837, 

 17, 1840, 

 28, 1844, 



Dec. 12, 1845, 

 Jan. 11, 1848, 

 Feb. 6, 1850, 

 Jan. SO, 1851, 

 29, 1854, 

 Dec. 20, 1854, 

 Feb. 6, 1855, 



« 7» 1855, 

 Jan. 5, 1856, 



" 23, 1857, 



it 



-32 

 -15 



-17 



-29 



-21 



-33 



-SO 



-29 



-34 



-33 



-29 

 -29 



-25 



-26 

 -18 



-26 



- 7^ 

 -17- 



- 6 

 4 

 5 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 6 



16 

 1 

 6 



16 



nk 



"16 

 -12 



- 6 

 -12 

 -13 



-18 



- 1 



-10 

 -18 

 -20 



-17 

 -20 



- 2 



- 8 



-28 



Average, 

 -22°-7 



-16 '0 



-11 -7 



-13 -0 



-14 -7 

 -16 '0 

 -13 '7 

 -16 -3 

 -11 -3 

 -15 -7 

 -17 -0 

 -17 -7 

 -16 -0 

 -19 -3 

 -9-7 



-9-0 

 -23 -3 



From the above it will be seen that January, 1857, was the coldest 

 month, the 23d the coldest day, and the morning of the 24th the cold- 

 est morning of the last twenty-three years. The first on the preceding 

 list of cold days, Jan. 4, 1835, approximates very nearly to the tempera- 

 ture of the 23d Jan., 1857. 



In this locality an extreme depression of the temperature is usually 

 accompanied with a calm state of the atmosphere, and consequently the 

 severity of the cold is not so keenly felt as a much less degree of cold 

 in places exposed to the wind. A remarkable exception occurred on the 

 16th of December, 1835, when the temperature of -17° was accompa- 

 nied through the day with a strong north wind, renderings the cold of that 

 day more intensely severe and distressing than that of any other in the 

 whole period. 



Our extreme cold days often occur in clusters of from three to six or 

 even ten days. There are nearly seventy such periods noted on our 

 record. The most remarkable of these commenced on Jan. 25th, 1844, 

 and continued seven days, during which the morning observations of the 

 thermometer averaged -24°'7, and the evening -12*^*1, and the noon 

 only 1-7. Lowest -30°. 



Another period of sk days commenced Feb. 2d, 1836, during which 



the average of the morning observations was-20'''8, and the evening 

 "7''-3. Lowest "29°. 



