20 
21, the longeft day of the year, from 
early in the morning tillnoon. 
In Terra Labrador, a very fevere froft 
prevailed during the firft months of the 
year. The thermometer fell at Okkak 
to — 30 degrees of Fahrenheit 5 and at 
Nain, fo late as the 2d of May, to —23 
degrees. There happened, likewife, {uch 
a fall of fnow, that at Okkak it drifted 
from themonntains around the houfes to the 
height of twenty feet, and was heaped up’ 
about the church as high as the roof. A 
European woman having died, they were 
ebliged to depoft the body among the 
fnow, not being able to bury it till fpring. 
This year the tummer was not indeed ‘fo 
warm as the preceding ; the thermometer — 
of Fahrenheit, however, rofe once at Nain 
higher than feventy degrees. But there 
fuddenly enfued a very great change: in 
the fhort fpace of half an hour, it feil 
more than thirty degrees ; and on the fol- 
lowing day the fea was covered with a thin 
coat of new ice. 
¥799.—In the winter-months at the 
end of this year, the weather was uncom- 
monly mild in Greenland. At Lichtenau 
and other places, the thermometer ftood 
in December for the moft part a few de- 
grees above the freezing point. There 
fell likewife but little fnow. 
In Labrador, the fummer was moftly. 
ftormy and wintry. On the roth of June 
the fnow fell a quarter of anell deep ; and 
the bay near Nain was not quite free from, 
ice till towards the end of that month.— 
‘The frott deftroyed almott all the potatoes. 
Tn Okkak the faow began to thaw cn the 
ground ; but immediately afier, it frowed 
again ; and on the 24th of May, two Ef- 
kimaix Indians arrived, who had travel- 
Jed with their fledges on the ice. To- 
wards the end of June, it again froze fo 
hard, that the whole of the bay near 
Okkak was covered with a thin coating 
of ice in one night. Many of the garden- 
plants were deftroyed by the froft, and the 
greateft part of what was left was devour- 
ei by the mice and birds. On the ith 
of Auguft, the whole of the coaft near 
Okkak, and the fea, as faras it could be 
thence difcerned, was ftill covered wich 
ice. Durimg the winter-months, the wea- 
ther was mild. - On the 12th of Novem- 
ber, a’ very remaskable phenomenon, 
which very mucir terrified the Efkimaux, 
was fee at Nain and Hoffenthal. © About 
break of day, a great number of fire-balls, 
fome of which feemed to be half anell in 
diameter, defcended in every © direction 
a 
Defence of the Emigrant Clergy. 
[Feb. 1, 
towards the earth. This phenomenon 
was likewife obferved about the fame time 
at New Hermhut, and Lichtenau, ~in 
Greenland, (at a diftance of about one 
hundred miles ;) from which circumitance 
fome conjecture may be made relative ta 
the height of the region where thefe me- 
teors were formed. : 
1800.—In the beginning of this year, 
the weather ‘continued ftill uncommonly 
mild. ‘Bleither is any mention made of 
fevere froit or fnow in the Journals of the 
Labrador Miffionaries. Very little fnow 
fellin Greenland the whole winter. Tt 
thawed fo early, that in January the earth 
was already as dry as otherwife in fum~ 
mer, and that the fheep found their daily 
food out of doors. In the northern parts 
of Europe, on the contrary, a very fevere 
froft prevailed about the fame time, with 
a deep fnow, which lay a long time 
on the ground. The fummer of this 
year muit likewife have been unpropi- 
tions m-Greenland, forthe turnips fown 
in the garden at New Herrnhut were very 
fmall. They were pulled, or rather dug 
up with much trouble on the 24th of Sep- 
tember, and following days; the earth 
being already frozen, and covered with 
deep fnow. am 
1801.—From the 14th of January, the 
cold continued to increafe in‘Greenland. 
In the meeting hall, at New Hermhut, 
the organ was wholly ‘covered witha 
thick rime, fo thatit could not be played’; 
which had never happened before. Seve- 
ral old Greenlanders remarked, when, - 
after the middle of April, the froft and 
fnow fill continued, that it feemed as if 
their country became worfe and worle 5) 
for when formerly the Sun was fo high 
as at this feafon, the air had been milder, 
2nd little fhrow ; but now, every return- 
ing fpring, it feemed as if” the frofty 
weather would never ceale. , 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Rely upon your impartiality for the 
infértion of a few curfory obfervati- 
ons on} a letter figned C&piPus in your 
lat, the writer of which appears to have 
fo much good fenie, as would have ied 
one to have expected from him, a little 
more candour. i hil 325 
With régard to Tallyrand, the worft 
that can be faid of him will be readily 
believed, by all who are in-the leaft ac- 
guainted with the Hiftory of the French — 
; revolution, 
t« ‘ . - A ? 
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