244 Meteorological Journal kept at Marietta; Ohio. 
river, it sunk to 27°, 28°, and 30° below—at Union, five miles 
above the mouth, at 2 o’clock in the morning it had fallen to -279; 
at sunrise it was at ~-23°—at Waterford, twenty miles above, the 
thermometer of my friend, Doct. G. Bowen, at 2 a. m. indicate 
a fall to -30° below; as daylight appeared it rose to -25° or -24° 
—at Zanesville it fell to -27°, and remained at that all the latter 
part of the night, being observed each hour by Mr. Coxe. 
The cold seems to have travelled in currents or veins; being 
more intense in the valley of the Muskingum than in any other 
portion of the State. The centre of the river valley is from one 
hundred and fifty to two hundred feet lower than the adjacent 
country, and the coldest air being the heaviest, would descend 
into the lowest places. It has been remarked that the cold was 
peach tree in the country down to the surface of the snow. It 
now destroyed the peach in low grounds but not on the hills— 
also quince trees, killing the fruit buds and small branches of the 
stood the trial very well, the latter being partly 90>" oe 
and is one of the most beautiful of all the hardy flow 
shrubs that I have seen. ven our native evergreens, Kalmis 
latifolia; and Rhododendron, suffered severely in theit ae" 
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killed outright. The Judas tree was dressed” in mournme 
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