182 Miscellanies. 
1786. Jan. 18, 4°—at 7A. M.; 19, 4°—at 8 A. M.; 20, 3° 
—at 9 A.M. Feb. 26, coldest day this month, 5°+. Dec. 12, 
51—at8 A. M. 
1787. Jan. 19, coldest day this month, 4°+. Feb. 5, coldest 
day this month, 5°+. Dec. 16, coldest this month, 18°-+. 
1788. Jan. 14,3°-atS A.M. Feb. 5,* 6°—at 10 A. M.; 
6, 4° —at sunrise. Dec. 25,6°-at 8 A. M. 
1789. Jan. 10, coldest day this month, 5°+. Feb. 2, 12°— 
at 7 A. M.; 5, 19—at 11 P. M.; 6, 8°—at sunrise. Dec. 18, 
coldest day this month, 13°+. 
1790. Jan. 6, coldest this month, 10°+. Feb. 10, coldest this 
month, 1°+-. Dec. 18, 2° —at half past ten P. M.; 10, 74°—at 
sunrise. 
1791. Jan. 2, coldest day this month, 1°+. Feb. 17, coldest 
day this month, 19+. 
Montpelier, Vermont, 1835. 
Saturday, Jan. 3, 9 o’clock, P. M. 30° below zero, 
Midnight, nh OT, aS 4 
Sunday, Jan. 4, 3 o’clock, A. M. 38 fi 
7 o'clock, A. M. 40 “ o6 
By this it will be seen the mercury fell at 7 o’clock on Sunday 
morning to forty degrees below zero, or the point of congelation. 
Other thermometers in this place showed nearly the same results. 
We have no acconnts of mercury ever having congealed before in 
New England. At Quebec, it is said it has been known once or 
twice to have done so. It is probable that the cold was several de- 
grees greater in this village than in the higher places in the vicinity, 
inasmuch as in still times it has been found that the lowest places are 
some degrees the coldest—a fact not unknown, we believe, in the 
annals of Meteorology.t 
A friend has favored us with an extract from a meteorological 
Journal kept in this town, (New Haven) nearly seventy years ago, 
by which it appears that the cold was as great asnow. It mentioned 
* Note by President Stiles—T his day, the memorable cold Sabbath, Feb. 21,1773, 
and the cold Tuesday, (Feb. 15,) 1731—2, the three coldest days in New England 
for seventy years past. 
+ In this extract from a Montpelier paper of Jan. 12, the writer does not say, in 
so many words, that the mercury froze, but we are left to inferit. As tothe great- 
est cold being in the lowest situations, in a still atmosphere this must of course hap- 
pen, for the coldest air, from its weight would necessarily subside.—Ed. 
