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spring. Blossoms have put out, also, in considerable num- 
bers. Many pear, plumb, cherry, apple, and some peach 
trees, are covered with them; the lilac, the straw berry, and 
the horse chesnut, exhibit fresh blossoms ; and the bean* 
and other garden vegetables have at thesame time expanded 
their flowers ; the watermellon and cucumber have not only 
put forth new blossoms from the old vines, but the new fruit 
has appeared ; the melons have acquired the size of a nine 
pound cannon ball, and the cucumbers have been repeat- 
edly served up for the table; the apple blossoms are fragrant 
as in spring, and we have observed a lady decorating her 
flower pots with the autumnal blossoms of the llac; they 
also emit their own peculiar odour. It is said, that in some 
instances, the mature fruit is found on the same tree with the 
new blossoms. ‘These effects are more or less conspic- 
uous along the sea shore, but decrease as we go inland. 
Dr. Peters informed us that the morning after the tempest, 
the leaves were perceptibly saline to the taste at Hebron, 
thirty miles from the ocean, and itis asserted to have been 
the fact, even at Northampton, which is more than double 
that distance. 
We have been recently put in possession of some man- 
script letters, addressed about sixty or seventy years since, 
to the late celebrated Dr. Jared Elliot, of Killingworth in 
Connecticut. Some of them are interesting, either on ac- 
count of their subjects or their authors, and we may occa- 
sionally give them publicity. The annexed extractis given, 
at this time, because it contains an account of a storm which 
occurred, sixty-seven years ago, and which resembled ex- 
tremely that upon which we have been remarking. The 
letter is dated Halifax, Sept. 17, 1754, and is signed James 
Monk. Some of the author’s remarks will not be consid- 
ered, at this day, as very correct, but we allow them to 
stand unaltered. 
*“‘ We have lately had a violent storm of wind, attended 
with some rain, and the effects of it are very remarkable, 
for in less than twenty-four hours after it, some of the trees 
appeared as much affected by it as they would have done 
from a violent frost : and within forty-eight hours all the 
* October 19, the Lima beans and peppers, of the second crop, have come 
almost to perfection. 
