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usually ranges with the varieties of stock, from the 15th of November to Christmas. Plowing, commences in a series of years, about the middle of April, and usually terminates in November, although in some seasons it is extended into the last days of the year.

In order to present some illustrations of the climate and seasons, I avail myself of the courtesy of Robert Clark Esq. and the Rev. Zadock Thompson, the eminent Professor of Natural History in the Vermont university. Mr. Clark has favored me with a copy of a meteorological table kept by himself at the Adirondac works, for a term of six months in 1852. Professor Thompson, has also supplied me with a copy of one kept by him during the same period at Burlington, Vermont. The former was made at the highest cultivated point, probably in the State, and the latter at an elevation of about 350 feet above tide water. They afford interesting and useful means of enquiry and comparison. The notes from the diary of Mr. Clark, exhibit the character of the climate, and the progress of the seasons in that elevated position. It is proper to remark that the spring of '52 was unusually cold, backward and inclement.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

Made at Adirondac, Essex Co., N. Y., Lat. 44°, Long. 2° 53' east of Washington. Elevation of the barometer above ground, 7 feet, above the ocean, 1,764 feet.

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