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18 State of the Weather in Greenland and Terra Labrador. (Feb. t, 
1791-—-On the 6th of May, the weather 
was ftilf fo cold at New Herrnhut, that a 
Greenland boy, who had gone out a fhort 
diftance, was nearly frozen to death, and 
it was found neceflary to carry him home. 
So lateas the 14th of May, the ground 
was covered with a confiderable quantity 
of fmow, and the cold continued fetiled. 
With the exception of a few days, the 
weather was rough and cold, and as much 
fnow as in the middle of winter. In June 
it rained almoft continually, till the r5th ; 
but after the 17th, the weather became clear 
and warm: on the 1ft of July, however, 
the froit returned with fuch violence, that 
fome meffengers, who had come to Herrn- 
hut upon bufinefs, could not leave that 
place. On the 3d of November, the 
weather was as fine and mild as in fum- 
mer, and very little fnow fell about this 
time. The Greenlanders daily brought 
tome with them whole facks-ful] of ber- 
ties from a high mountain at the diftance 
of fix miles. 
In the garden of the Miffionaries, at 
Okkak, the frow lay fo late as the end of 
May, from nine to ten feet deep ; and 
they were obliged to fhovel it froma part 
of their garden, to enable them to fow 
fome feeds. On one fide of the church it 
was ftill twenty feet high on the 17th of 
June; and prefled fo ftrongly againit it, as 
to force the walls out of the perpendicular. 
Wever before had the Miffionaries been fo 
deeply buried under the fnow, as during 
this year. ‘They could not find aa “op- 
portunity to fow their garden earlier than 
the 24th ef June, and two days after, the 
ground was 2zain covered with a deep fall 
of fhow.- The ice on the fhore continued 
till the 16th of July, when it fuddenly 
difappeared in ove night. In Nain, like- 
wife, the weather in June was ftill wintry ; 
'and fo'late as the 2d of July, the Efki- 
maux Indians caught five feals on the 
ice, and drove abovt upon it with their 
fledges ; but on the following day the ice 
broke, and onthe sth of July the firl 
kayeks were launched into the fea. 
At Lichtenau, in the year 1792, the 
2d of May wasa very warm day, and the 
fheep were driven out to the paftures. On 
the 14th the Miffionaries lowed their gar- 
den, 
“On the 30th of December, the thermo- 
meter of Reaumur was at Herrnbut fo low 
4s — 15% degrees, and thé cold exceffively 
fevere. In January, the weather was as 
mild*as had ever “been remembered there 
_at that feafon, The thermometer generally 
ftood above the freezing-point. At the 
jt blew out of an ovem 
beginning of February, the froft fet in.— 
On the 3d, the thermometer was at — 16 
degrees, and on the sth, at — 23 de- 
rrees of Fahrenheit. About the middle 
of July, the heat was fo great, that the 
thermometer of Fahrenheit rofe to + 92 
degrees. : ox 
1793-——-On the 3d. of February, and 
the days immediately following, the ther- 
-mometer ftood, at New Herrnhut, at 
— 19 degrees; and on the 24th of 
March, at — 23 degrees Reaumur.— 
About the end of May, it fnowed fo vio- 
lently, as to prevent fome of the meetines 
for divine fervice, which are ufually held 
about the time of Pentecoft. 
On the 8th of February, the thermo. 
meter of Fahrenheit fell fo low as — 34 
degrees at Hoffenthal ; and the froft was 
fo cutting, that for feveral days the Mif- 
fionaries were unable to ftir out of doors. 
~ 1794.—-On the 11th of February, the 
decree of cold at New Herrnhut was — 21 
degrees of Reaumur. A Greenlander and 
his two fons were under the neceflity of 
paffing the whole night among the ice in 
“the fea: they returned home, however, 
fafe the next morning. On’ the roth of 
December, the cold at the fame place was 
eighteen degrees of Reaumur. In the 
morning, the Miffionaries found the wa-: 
ter frozen in the tea kettles on the ftove, 
although a large fire had been kept up in. 
it on the preceding evening. About 
Chriftmas, the weather was very mild in 
Greenland. In Lichtenau, the heat in the 
hall where the congregation met for di- 
vine fervice, was fo great, as to be very 
difagreeable, and even almolt intolerable. 
In Labrador, the winter-months of this 
year do not feem to have been ditinguith- 
ed by any thing extraordinary. 
1795 —On the 8th of January, there 
arofe fuddenly at New Herrnhut a ftrong 
fouth-eaft wind, which was as warm as if 
At the fame 
time it rained with fuch violence, that the 
water rufhed into the houfe. On the 
roth, this form increafed toa dreadful 
hurricane, which threw down the ftore- 
houfe of the Greenlanders, and threatened 
the ruin of the dwelling of the Miffion- 
aries, which was much out of repair.— 
At Lichtenfels, likewife, there arofe, on 
the 16th of January, a ftorm from the 
fouth-eak, which lafted the whele day, and 
was fo violent, that the oldeft. of the 
Greenlanders and Europeans did not re- 
member ever-to have feen the like of it.— 
And for fome time after, the weather like- 
wife continued ftill very mild, and f eae 
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