136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
1833, February, 1835, and February and March; 1843. The first of 
‘these is so very remarkable that but for.the privilége Mr. Dade has 
kindly given me of consulting his original journal, <I.should have sus- 
pected an error. It appears that in this year the cold set in on the 28th 
vof November, and with such severity that the mean temperature at 8 
A. M. for three weeks, from the 30thNovember to the 18th December 
inclusive was only 10°, which is lower than the ynean for the same hour og 
for any one winter month at Montreal. * . ; SE atte 
e may next refer to the meteorological winter, ar months of: De- 
cember, January and February: the mean of which is given in th 
following table, together with the lowest temperature at 8 4. m. in each 
season—the lowest at any hour, and the number of observations which 
indicated at that hour temperatures below zero, and from zero to 20° in 
the three months. ' as: 
No, of Obs. : No, of 
qo: Mean Lowest “eam Mans see? 
temp.| at 8 ,at any|B’low] Zer temp.| at 8| at any 
hour, | zero, A.M. | hour. 
1830- “ 
1831-2 . 17-8|/-200} « | 6 .| 22°9 |- 61/-11-0 28 
1832-3 .| 26°3)- «1 9 8: 
1833-4 . 26°5|- aie iy 
1884-5 ....| 21-9/-15°0) « | 6 
18 20°5|-20:0) “ | 10 
1836~7 -| 220/= 70) «<1 5 
1837-8 ....| 23°5)/- 20] « 1 
1838-005 80.15% Laer es 
1839-40, 25°2)- 8-0/-19°2| 7 | 8 
1840-1 . 24:0/- 2-0\- s3} 1 :)} 21-3 -10°6! -14'8 34 
1841-2 ..../ 282) 23/- o-9! oO oS Ge. je 
(m) at 7 a.m. | | i24°36]. |: | ae ee 
to have been the most exceptional of the whole, and it may be men 
tioned in this connection, on authority of Mr. Paine’s observations a 
Boston, that the winter of 1827-8 was the mildest of the last twenty> 
seven, it is stated that the Hudson River did not close at all in that 
winter, 
the 3d, and in 1840 on the 6th December, but in most, if not all of 
these cases broke up again. This was not the case in 1851, when it w8 
so solid that as early as December 18, the steamboats found it ws” 
to land their passengers at the edge of it, half a mile or more bey® 
that point, and at one time were reduced to landing them with gre 
fficulty and some danger, upon the south side of the Peninsula, Pf 
d the i tat beyond the 
