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66.

This Winter I am [informed?] has been of
longer duration and marked with more rigour than
usual. The snow commenced to fall in the latter
end of October. The duration of the frost is always
accompanied with a fine clear cloudless sky, and
dry atmosphere that renders it both pleasant
and considerably diminishes the piercing quality
it possesses the atmosphere is loaded with vapour.

This purity and dryness may be exemplified
from the following simple observations [?]
that the roofs of the Dock yard Barracks, churches
and public buildings are covered with sheets of tin
which are deprived of the least corrosion. I have also
remarked that the large Iron screws and nails employed
to bind the uprights and posts of the wood
bridge over the Cataraqui bear the appearance of
having been brought from the shop but yesterday
being entirely arrested from any sort of rust, [?]
they have now stood seven winters.

15th March 1841. The mercury has been this day eleven
degrees below zero, and it has been stated
two gentlemen who keep a register of the fluctuation
of the thermomenter, that it has been known to [?]
thirty degrees below that point, but this was considered
its very greatest depression, and happens
only once or twice in a season, and then its continuance
rarely exceeds 48 hours.

But the general range of cold in [medium?]
years may be estimated from 25 degrees above to [?]
below zero, on this [Lake?]

66.

This Winter I am [informed?] has been of
longer duration and marked with more rigour than
usual. The snow commenced to fall in the latter
end of October. The duration of the frost is always
accompanied with a fine clear cloudless sky, and
dry atmosphere that renders it both pleasant
and considerably diminishes the piercing quality
it possesses the atmosphere is loaded with vapour.

This purity and dryness may be exemplified
from the following simple observations [?]
that the roofs of the Dock yard Barracks, churches
and public buildings are covered with sheets of tin
which are deprived of the least corrosion. I have also
remarked that the large Iron screws and nails employed
to bind the uprights and posts of the wood
bridge over the Cataraqui bear the appearance of
having been brought from the shop but yesterday
being entirely arrested from any sort of rust, [?]
they have now stood seven winters.

15th March 1841. The mercury has been this day eleven
degrees below zero, and it has been stated
two gentlemen who keep a register of the fluctuation
of the thermomenter, that it has been known to [?]
thirty degrees below that point, but this was considered
its very greatest depression, and happens
only once or twice in a season, and then its continuance
rarely exceeds 48 hours.

But the general range of cold in [medium?]
years may be estimated from 25 degrees above to [?]
below zero, on this [Lake?]