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A few days later he writes, under date February 16th: “River 
opens ; carrying off hay from the marsh in my boat.” On Decem- 
ber 25th, 1829, Mr. Hoyt writes : “A green Christmas, very 
warm, grass quite green.” The ferry at Hampton was in use a 
good part of die winter. The next winter was even milder. The 
last of December the river (Kennebeceasis) remained open, with 
warm weather, and on January rst, 1831, a warm rain brought 
the river up over its banks. On March 20 Air. Hoyt writes. 
“No frost in the ground, warm all February and March.” 
The winter of 1839-40 wais remarkable for its mildness. About 
the end of December the Woodstock Times says : “The weather 
continues highly favorable, and the ground is still bare. The 
river flows as free as Arno’s tide.” There was a green Christ- 
mas. The winter of 1847-8 was also unusually mild. The St. 
John river closed about the 20th November, but warm weather 
and heavy rains caused the lice to run out about the 10th 
of December. This gave opportunity, for Lady Cotebrooke to 
make her famous winter trip from S't. John to Fredericton in the 
Carleton Ferryboat, which bore her name — the “Lady Cole- 
brooke.” The boat left St. John on the afternoon of Tuesday, 
the 14th December, and arrived at Fredericton early the next day. 
On her return trip she brought a number of students from the 
university to spend their Christmas vacation, among them Dr. 
W. P. Dole, who wrote a very interesting account of the trip for 
the St. John Globe under date 51th February, 1889. 
N. B. — As bearing on the question of seasonal changes and 
the condition of the weather in New Brunswick, attention is 
directed to the “Notes” of the Director of the St. John Observa- 
tory for the past year which will be found at the end of this 
Bulletin, and also to Dr. G. U. Hay’s notes on the Weather and 
Plants on a previous page. 
