Miscellanies. 177 
An extensive slate quarry exists in the town of Blenheim, twenty 
mielss outh of the Court house, affording superior hones and whet- 
stones. The greywacke is converted into grindstones in the neighbor- 
ing towns of Blenheim, Cobleskill and Fulton. The Favosite alluded 
to in the Strontianite localities is advantageously polished for orna- 
mental purposes, exhibiting a finely variegated surface. ‘The spe- 
cimens found in the above localities only, are susceptible of a fine 
polish. 
Anhydrite is found in the town of Sharon, at the Sulphur Springs, 
seventeen miles west of the Court house. 
MISCELLANIES. 
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 
1. Cold of January, 1835.*—18385,} Jan. 8, New York City, 
—7°, 6 0’clock A.M. 
Jan. 4, Sunday, Albany.—At the Academy, highest part of the 
city, 7A. M.23°— 9, 20°— 10, 17°9— 12M. 8°— 1 P.M. 2°— 
2,1°+ 3, 2°+. At sunset below 0. 
In the lower parts of the city, the cold was still more intense. 
At Gen. Van Rensselaer’s Manor House, at 6 A. M. 32°_-. 
At Gen. 5. Van Rensselaer’s, Jr. at half past 7 A. M. 32°—. 
At Edward Brown’s, Steuben Street, at 7 A. M. 314° —, colder 
by 4° than by the same standard thermometer, on the cold day of 
1817. | 
At the office of the Albany Argus, western exposure, at 9 o’clock 
A.M. the mercury was 25°—, at sunset 34°—. 
The coldest weather on record in Albany, prior to Sunday, Jan. 
4, 1835, was on Sunday, Jan. 21, 1827, when it was 23°—, not so 
cold by 9° as on the 4th instant. 
Snow every where a foot or more deep—fine sleighing—rail roads 
obstructed—cars could not move. 
At Montreal, 35° —. 
Harbor of Boston frozen down to Fort Independence, those of 
Portland, Newburyport, New Bedford, New Haven, Philadelphia, 
Baltimore and Washington frozen over. 
* Chiefly from the papers of the time. + New York City, Feb. 10, 1817, —10°. 
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