252 JVotes on the Season. 
secures his property from this species of danger. The slight ex- 
pense incurred in raising a conductor to his house or barn amply 
repays him in the sense of security that he feels personally, and 
the removal of the contingency of the destruction of his property. 
In hilly countries, however, thunder storms are more frequent as 
well as the quantity of rain greater. The mean annual quantity 
of rain that falls with us is 30 inches and 44-100 of an inch. 
The vapor from the lake is attracted to the higher ground of the 
eastern counties, so that a fog with us is a rare occurrence, not 
averaging more than once or twice a year. A portion of the va- 
por from the greater lakes pass to the north of us in their easterly 
course, and consequently we often have the exhibition of a heavy 
storm passing beyond us, while we are unaffected by its influence. 
The prevailing wind is southerly, and the most unfrequent, north- 
easterly. A southerly wind in the winter is less pleasant than a 
northerly one, as in passing over tracts of thawing snow it comes 
loaded with moisture, and the air being saturated with it and 
coming in contact with the body, it deprives it rapidly of its heat 
by converting it into latent heat, assisted very much in its opera- 
tion by the strong current of air which brings it to us. Hence 
that uncomfortable sense of chilliness we experience, or as we 
usually denominate it, rawness, which is very apt to produce 
more diseases caused by the sudden application of cold to the 
body. Owing to the proximity of this place to the lake, the 
peach, the apricot, the nectarine and vine are raised without dif- 
ficulty, and severe frosts seldom affect vegetation. 
West Dresden, May, 1848. 
Errata in Historical Remarlts on the settlement of the Genesee Country, for Carboni- 
ferous Outline," read Carboniferous Outlier. For '" Canandaiqua," read " Canandarqua." 
NOTES ON THE SEASON, 
BY WILLIAM BACON. 
In an early number of the journal, we brought our remarks on 
the season to the closing of the year. By a reference to that 
article it will be seen that the close of autumn and early part of 
winter, were, with the exception of a very few days mild 
and open to an almost unparalelled extent, — that some of those 
sold days were unusually so, for the season in which they fell, 
but soon were succeeded by almost as great an extreme of heat. 
So remarkable were November and December, that many of our 
■^armers did not feed their sheep, unless it were in storms of cold 
urns, until the middle of the latter month. 
