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altogether more moral, more straightforward and 

 honorable in their business transactions, more 

 kind and considerate to their neighbors, and 

 runs and hospitable to strangers, than the 

 Mammon-worshipping Adeladians. Their chief 

 sources of amusemenl are hunting, shooting, 

 riding, and reading. Some possess their piano- 

 forte, and enliven their homes «rith popular and 

 even classical music, and occasionally dedicate an 

 evening to Terpsichore, when the polka, mazurka, 

 Bchottische, raJse-a-deux-temps, and other popular 

 dances, are gone through with b grace and ■ 

 thai would astonish the fashionables ofLondon." 



Every sudbessive year will keep adding to tko 

 interest already created in favor 01 the e colonies, 

 [t is curious to observe how eagerly everything 

 connected with them is caught at and read. 



WINTER. 



BY HELEN in: i uniUNOTON. 



Dark, cheerless Winter ! few wfll welcome thee, 

 Or hail thy near approach with songs of joy ; 



ft 



They say thy days pass dull and heavi 



And that thou lov'st to scatter and destroy. 



They tell me, too, thy melancholy moan 



Chases all thoughts of happiness away; 

 But thou nasi cans'; for sorrow ■-— joys have flown, 

 And Earth's feu fallen to dbcuy. 



Where are those lovely lilies of the vale, 



The rose, the pink, and gems that deck'd Our 



bowi 



Well may 'si thou weep, and moan thy plaintive 

 wail, — 



The funeral dirge of Nature's fairest flowers. 



Yot have I seen thy smile — not like the Spring 

 Or JOVOUS Summer. Timidly it. east 



A ray of future hope; and seemed to bring 

 A sad, yet pleasing memory of tin; past. 



thou hast pleasures for the happy few, 

 Who love to revel in the fond delights 

 That Nature gives her children ; treasures, too, 

 Of priceless worth; und grand and gorgeous 

 eights. 



With ecstacyl hail the bracing breeze, 



And love to watch the fairy flakes of snow, 

 As they fall gracefully amongst the trees, 



To breathe a parting blessing ere they 



And who can fail to hjve thee? When the frost 

 Has erystalised the earth, and the moon's 

 light 

 Beams on the face of nature, — we are lost, 



In love and admiration at the sight. 



Then let us wander where the leafless 1i< 

 Are dressed in crystal rohes, — earth's bright 

 gem, 



And brilliant ice-drops, moulding as they freeze, 

 To deck with beauty Nature's diadem. 



Oh ! we will ne'er forget the joy. the pride, 



Of England's happy home! Where'er wo rove 



May happiness attend the dear fire-side, 

 Ann WnrrzB'fl nmAME BOOTH ul GHSEBSD n 

 Lots I 



DEW,— AND HOAR FROST. 



How many persons are there, to whom the 



phenomena attendant upon dew and lm;ir 

 frost are perfectly unknown! Yet are they 



alar, curious, and interesting: — 



DEW. 



When the direct influence of the sun i^ iv - 

 moved, in t lie evening, and the .surface of the 

 earth thus no longer continues to acquire 



heat,— at that instant, from the ceaseless ac 



tivitv of heat to maintain a State of eipiili 



brium, the surface of the earth, being the 

 wanner body, radiates a portion of its su- 

 perfluous temperature into the surrounding 



space ; and thus the air immediately in con 

 tact with the surface becomes cooled below 



the point of saturation, and gives off a por- 

 tion of its water in the form of dew. The 

 deposition of dew is always most abundant 



during calm and < doudle-s nights, and in situ- 

 ations freely exposed to the almo phere. 

 Whalcver interferes in any way with the 

 process of radial ion, as might be expected, 



a great effed on the deposition of dew. 

 Hence the radiation of heat, and consequently 



the deposition of dew, are obvialed not only 

 by the slightest covering or shelter, as by 



thin matting, or even muslin, by the neigh 

 borhood oi buildings, and innumerable other 

 impediments, near the earth's surface, Imt, 

 matters interposed ai a great distance from 

 the earth's surface have precisely the same 



effect. Thus cloudf effectually prevent the 

 radiation of heat from the earth's surface!, 80 

 that cloudy nights are always warmer than 

 those; which are (dear ; and, in consequence, 



there is usually on such nights little or no 



deposition of dew. 



hoar roosT, 

 From dew, there is an insensible transition 



to hoar frost j hoar frost being, in fact, only 

 frozen dew, and indicative of greater Cola. 

 Wo Observe, therefore, that frosty nights, 

 life simply dewy nights, are generally still 

 and clear. The influence 01 radiation in 



producing cold at the earth's surface, would 



scarcely be belli red byinattentive obi erven. 



Often, on a calm night, the temperature of a 



• plot is 10 or 15 degri et less than that 



of the air a few feet above it. Hence, as 



.Mr. Daniel has remarked, vegetables, in our 

 climate, are, during ten months of the year, 



liable to he exposed at night to a freezing 

 temperature; and even in duly and August, 



to a temperature only two 01 three deg 



warmer. Yet, notwithstanding these vicissi- 

 tudes, in the words of the same gentleman, — 

 "to vegetables growing in climates for which 

 they are originally designed by nature, 

 there can be no doubt that the action of M 





