17,3, ae Miscellanies. 
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 3 and 4.—Potomac at Washington 
frozen over firm enough for carriages to pass. 
Jan. 5, Washington, at sun rise, 16° —. 
It was the greatest cold, says Mr. Craig of the patent office, ” 
which he has observed in forty years. 
The coldest weather observed at Baltimore in sixteen years. 
Sunday, Jan. 4, 1835, Pittsfield, Mass. 32°— ; people went to 
church at 10 A. M., at 22° —; all day did not rise above 1°—, 
and at eve sunk to15°—. The air still, and the cold not severe to 
sensation, as on a subsequent day when it was only 0, but windy 
and clear.—C. Dewey. 
Detroit, (Mich.) Jan. 4& 5, 1835. No thermometer lower than 
+1°; on the 7th it was —5°, on the Sth —4°, which were the 
lowest.—Major Whitimg. 
Marietta, (Ohio,) Jan. 5. -+2°, which was the coldest day ; 
the rivers closed on the 6th, but opened on the 24th; in Dec. 14 
inch snow.—Dr. Hildreth. 
In the Southern States, very severe cold; at 0, or near it in 
Charleston, S. C., and in many other places, causing much suffering. 
From a Meteorological Register kept at Hanover, New Hamp- 
shire and forwarded to us by. Prof. Adams, it appears that on the 
10th of December, the mercury being at 10+ at sun rise, sunk to 
3°— at noon, and to 9° — at 95 P. M., the mercury fell 5° in one 
hour, and 40° in twenty four hours. 
Mean pressure of the atmosphere, - - 29.44 inches. 
Greatest pressure, - - - - 29.82 
Least pressure, - - - - - 28.85 
Range of the barometer, —- - - Iii 
Fair days, - - - - - - = 3 
Cloudy days, = - - - - - - 17 
Variable days, - - - - - - 11 
Coldest day, 26th, —- - - - —16° 2 3” 
Warmest day, 3d, rah Nias ike - - 33 40 35 
Range of the thermometer, - - - 56 
Mean tenrperature at.sun rise, - - 14 
Do. do. at1ldZ P.M. - - 24 
Do. Goria (atc! ME oe - Mezh 
Do. de. ofthe month, - - 18} 
On the 2lst, there was an Aurora Borealis, the altitude of whose 
areh was 9° above the horizon. 
