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erection of bathing estublitjhments, so muck needed, — and wife 

 the many inducements it already has, or might be made to 

 possess, cannot fail, by and by, when the extension of railroads 

 will render it more easy of access by laud, to attract not a few 

 of the many excursionists, who annually flock to the north to 

 escape from the extreme heat of their southern residence. 



On reviewing the past year it appears that part of the winter" 

 of 1865-1866 was of more than ordinar}' severity. On the 

 night of 6th-7th Januarj^the thermometer fell to 15° below zero, 

 not having reached a lower degree than 10'^ below zero during 

 three preceding ^^ears ; but the mean temperature was only 

 1° below that of the same period. It is remarkable, with regard 

 to the freezing over of the harbour, as noted in February, that 

 what a temperature of 15° below zero in January failed to 

 accomplish, was afterwards, in February, effected when the 

 thermometer indicated only 7° below zero ; but it must be borne 

 in mind that the combiuation of two conditions of the w^eather 

 is required, viz : a perfect calm with a certain low state of the 

 temperature, without w^hich the harbour does not freeze ; and to 

 this may perhaps be attributed the infrequency of what was 

 witnessed last winter ; such an event completely interrupting the 

 navigation of the harbour, not having, as far as T can ascertain, 

 occurred oftener than five times during the past 55 years, viz : in 

 February, 1866, 1859, 1839, 1834, 1821. 



The Spring, though cold and backward, Avas not altogether 

 unfavourable to the farmer. The summer w as remarkable for 

 its intense heat in some parts of this continent lying to the 

 westward of Halifax, especially the month of July, as previously 

 noted, but here the mean temperature did not exceed that of 

 three preceding years. There was more rain thail usual. The 

 hay harvest, to those who were fortunate enough to house it 

 early, was good ; but the weather proved unfavourable to the 

 later crops, and much was got in in' a bad condition, and much 

 entirely lost — other crops promised well at the end of summer ; 

 but there was a change at the commencement of autumn, and 

 the very unsettled rainy weather of September, seemed for 

 a time to endanger them. A tine dry October, however, 

 removed all anxiety, and the generally good harvest was at last 



