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the thermometer being only five degrees below zero, in Feb- 
ruary. 
is sixty-one inches and eighty-four hundredths, a quantity some- 
what exceeding that of any other year since I have kept a reg- 
ister, thirty-two years, and with that kept by Mr. Wood from 
1818, making forty years; forty-two inches is the mean amount 
er aseries of years, but in dry periods it sinks sometimes to 
follows: winter 187% inches spring 18,42, inches, summer 
153), inches, autumn 18.5 inches. The quantity of snow was 
small, four inches being the greatest depth at any one time, not 
ording sufficient for sleighin 
Winter —The winter of 1858, was uncommonly mild, the 
mean being 36°54; more than six degrees above that of 1857, 
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any One on record. The moderate weather continued until near 
the middle of February, about which time the Ohio river was 
it was feared we should have no ice for summer use. 
of fruit trees swelled as they do in March, and some peach trees 
on a high sandy ridge of land in Noble county, fifteen or twenty 
miles north of Marietta, opened their blossoms on the 28th day - 
of January, and what is ver curious, notwithstanding the cold 
18th of February before navigation was closed b ice, and the 
24th before the Ohio was a over. It pi i! shut only a 
few days, and boats were again running by the tenth of March, 
Ina Majority of years, the Ohio is closed for a short time in De- 
cember, but invariably opens again at or near the winter solstice, 
When there is Commonly an abundance of rain. February was 
es y three degrees above it.’ The month of May was about 
© ordinary temperature 60°70. ‘The early part of March was 
"neommon|y cold, the mercury falling to zero on the seventh of 
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