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SECT. XIII. 
VIII. ON THE FERTILIZING POWER OF SNOW. 
Oh! may’ll thou often see 
Thy furrows whitened by the woolly rain; 
Nutritious, secret nitre lurks within 
The porous wet, quick’ning the languid glebe. 
Philips. 
In the new, or French Calendar yon find the months Brumaire (our No¬ 
vember), Frimaire (December), Nivose (January), Pluviose (February), and 
Ventose* (March), succeed each other, all converging to one point, namely, 
the oxygenation of the land, as we shall endeavour to prove. 
*THE FRENCH CALENDAR. 
Vendemaire, the Vintage, lit. answering to our September 22, to 
Brumaire, Fog - 
Frimaire, 1 . Frost 
Nivose, 1. Snow 
Pluviose, Rain 
Ventose, 1 . Wind - 
Germinal, 1 . Budding - 
Floreal, 1 . Flowers 
Prairial, Hay-harvest 
Messidor, Corn-harvest 
Thermidor, Intense Heat 
Fructidor, Fruit 
October 22, to 
November 21, to 
December 21, to 
January 20, to 
February 19, to 
March 21, to 
April 20, to 
May 20, to 
June 19, to 
July 19, to 
Augult 18, to September 22. 
A NEW ENGLISH CALENDAR. 
The Months of our Calendar might be thus expressed. 
I. The Foggy Month, November. 
Lord, how thy wonders are display’d, 
Where’er I turn mine eye! 
If I survey the ground I tread, 
Or gaze upon the sky! 
There’s not a plant or dow’r below, 
But makes thy glories known; 
And clouds arise, and tempefts blow, 
By order from thy throne. 
