FROST. 
In the Year 
- 508. The rivers in Britain frozen for two months. 
The Danu uite frozen over. 
: The Thames.frozen 6 wecks ; booths built on it: 
Froft from: cS ober iit, till February 26th, 760. 
$827. Froft in England for 9 w 
Carri lages aaa on the Adriatic fea. 
oft rivers in England frozen 2 months. 
. The Thames frozen 13 wee 
. Froft lafted 120 days ; ania December 22d. 
98. The Thames frozen 5 we eks. 
froft on June 24th; the corn and fruits 
weeks. 
. The Thames frozen 14. week 
Froft in ee from Neate till April. 
Several woo ridges een away by ice. 
ill March 22d. 
5 weeKs. 
m November 24th to cae? roth, Thames 
“Frozen down to Gravefend 
Froft for 13 weeks. 
. Severe froft for many weeks. 
. The fame for many weeks. 
g- One for 9 weeks ; began December ia 
¥742. Severe froft for many-w eeks. 
7. Severe froft in Ruffia. | 
4. Severe one in England. 
The fame in aia g 
. The fame in En 
A | frozen ne widge 3 Soothe on it. 
1795. Severe froft in Englan 
“Frost, in “P Ayfiology, or as it x regards the animal and 
-vegetable kingdoms, is of great confideration. Clear fro 
-weather is accounted falubrious, when the i 
. taken by keeping the fatal og uae in v 
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winter fe expands the foil, renders it more loofe 
and friable, ona ae it for tillage ; it deftroys 
other hand, in an early fpring, when vegetation has advanced 
too rapidly, the effeéts-of froft have fometimes been highly 
deleterious. What are yaa blights are moft frequently 
occafioned by fr Ito appens, that warm weather 
-in April puede is acoapeed with thunder, and this is 
= or two of cold frofty weather. After 
pee nights.more feverely cold, when the thermometer has 
en-at or near freezing, the blight appears. It has been 
serbed in oa raat : = lightning ; a it is clearly an 
ufe. Experienced gardeners in- 
form us tee we bef remedy for einen in ‘vegetation 
for inftance as in the young fhoots of potatoes, is to c 
the oa affeGted, which ctherwit, like a gangrene ais 
the diforganization. See BLIGHT. 
Frost, ode is the dew frozen on ‘the gral, on trees, 
e of any other body. This phenomenon, 
i ioe in frotty aoe is notwith- 
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‘The reafan is, it is: 
accompanied with cae figns of froft, as ice and fn 
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d Gardening, is “beneficial i in the - 
o tumn. 
sr then, and fe bala es un- « 
Vapour atthat feafon is copious, and dews ftrong. The cold 
is not yet fufficiently powerful to freeze a body of water in 
contaét with the earth ;- but the dew, being fmall drops of 
water infulated, or refting lightly on the grafs, requires lefs 
cold to congeal it. ere is a remarkable appearance of 
hoar-froft when a aay commences after a long froff. 
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perature for fome time, condenfe the vapour introduced Oy 
as thaw ee Sa frott. 
wad = of plan ree 
s confeque oa Oia that wherever lands are of an 
chine harfh, itiff, clayey quality, much advantage may 
be derived from the practice of laying th p in ridges, 
in 
ence roft. during the winter’ feafon. 
ploughing ee up fhould be performed late in the autumnal, 
feafon, juft before the froft ufually fets in, that they 
rent ae fulleft effects. In many cafes a fine ae may 
ned in this way without any {prin ploughing, the 
grou aa ‘being merely reduced by the (tee at the time of 
putting in a feed, which is a great faving of both labour 
and expenc 
The ace of froft is feldom much wanted on the light, 
fandy friable foils, as it may render them too open an 
porous for ie ucing good crops, and ther sap . great io 
chief. It is'very feldom that corn crops any w 
injured by ee winters, a ac where che land has cine 
perfe@tly drained, and is 1 degree covered with fnow. 
But they are highly deftrnétive of great numbers of differ- 
ent kinds of infects, Ale and other forts of vermin ; while, 
the earth in a 
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the Sy 
erates trong healthy Lei are produced, and of courie 
abundant cr contrary, w frequent rain falls 
in the ie feafon w ithout froit, the earth is foddened, fo 
by ee hoar frofts of the {pring, b 
i reeds 5 or which, if they efcape, yield flraw in the 
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e pee of grain, 
The cafe in which the greateft danger is to be. appre+ 
. hended from froft, 1 is where the ground is inclined to be wet, 
and:where th ring of {now upon it. Fo cage: 
where a fharp froft fee in after a fudden a An fibre 
the roots are liable t bur hie r broken pene es 
‘which is produce ed . oe jab ce La of the 
plants, and perhaps that w ra eee them 
Froft is found to have much power in the 
ripening of 
grain and fruits of different ‘kinds. 
There are, it is continued, — the number of ripe 
ars: now there were a week a they are not only 
changed as to colour, but the corn a is obvony plumper. 
Before the frofts, the heads feemed. flende 
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