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Cloudy morning; heavy shower 10 to 11 J o'clock, 

 A. M. Rained 1 p. m., rained 4 p. m., rained in the 

 evening, with a furious wind from the southwest ; 

 wind turned northwest the night following. 



Sept. 23, First frost ; mercury 30® above zero. 



A brilliant aurora 8 to 10 p. m. On the 22d Moose 

 Hillock and the Franconia Mountains covered 

 wuth snow. 



Nov. 10, Wild geese flew south. 



27, Moose Hillock appears to be as bare of snow to-day 



as it did in the month of June. 

 Solar halo at 3 o'clock p. m. 

 20, Snow to be seen on Moose Hillock to-day. 

 Dec. 10, Slight aurora 10 p. m, 



APPEARANCE OF SPRING BIRDS, ETC., 1863. 



MEMORANDUM BY DAVID JOHNSON, NEWBURY, VERMONT. 

 1863. 



March 27, Robins appeared. 



28, Blue birds appeared. 

 April 6, Ground birds appeared. 



17, Barn swallow^s appeared, frogs heard. 

 May 11, Bank swallows came. 



Red plum trees in blossom. 

 Cuckoo heard. 



12, Orioles and bobolinks appeared. 



13, Eaves swallows came. 

 15, Humming birds came. 



20, Brown thrush came. 



21, Apple trees in blossom. 

 23, Wrens came. 



Nov. 10, Wild geese flew south. 



Dec. 3, Connecticut River froze over. 



