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Mountain regions, as wild geese were seen flying to the south as early 
as the 19th of the month. The winter thus far has been mild. No 
ice was formed in our rivers until the 29th Dec., when a little was seen 
floating in the Muskingum. ‘The spring months were earlier than 
those of 1832, by about a week. Cultivated fruit trees brought 
forth abundantly, especially the apple, the crops of which were unu- 
sually fine, many thousand barrels having been sent to the market 
below. 
The summer was mild and pleasant, and the crops of all kinds gen- 
erally good. After September, the autumnal months were cold and 
very windy, blowing in strong gales from the western quarters for 
many days in succession. ‘Indian Summer,” commonly a delight- 
ful season in the western states, barely made its appearance, before 
the setting in of hard frosts, destroyed the foliage of our forests, and 
put a stop to that slow and gradual change of color, which gives to 
our woodlands, those rich and varied tints, so much admired by the 
painter and the poet. 
In November, occurred that beautiful meteoric display, of which 
a notice is subjoined. In December, there fell, within a few days, 
two feet of snow, which soon melted gradually away, so that at this 
time the earth is nearly bare. ‘The whole year has been unusually 
healthy in this part of Ohio. Not a single death by cholera, that ter- 
rible scourge, which has visited and made sorrowful, so many places 
in the west, both above and below us, has occurred in Marietta. | It 
may perhaps, be attributed to its naturally healthy location, to the 
wide, airy streets and commons; the cleanly and sober habits of the 
people, and to the great abundance of shade trees, which every where, 
deck our streets and door yards. It was observed, several years since, 
while the disease was yet confined to the eastern continent, that re- 
gions thickly covered with woods, and towns and villages in which 
grass plats and trees abounded, suffered much less, and in many in- 
stances not at all from the cholera. It may be philosophically ac- 
counted for, in the known property which the dense foliage of trees 
possesses, of decomposing the poison which generates miasmatic fe- 
vers, and with which the cholera was closely allied, from its prevailing 
mostly in districts subject to these diseases. Whatever may have 
been the cause, the inhabitants of Marietta, have great reason for 
gratitude and praise to that being who ruleth the destinies of man. 
Marietta, Ohio, Jan. 1, 1834. 
