March 31. Thirty-six and a half inches of snow has fallen this month. There is now in the woods a little over two

feet of snow, and nearly as much in the clearings. On the 1st April last year, the snow was entirely off the roads, and there was but little in the woods.

April 26. First swallows seen.

May

30. There has been but little "sugar" weather this month. On the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, sap ran very slowly and but little sugar was made; from 25th to 28th, however, it ran well. There has twenty-five and a half inches of snow fallen this month; there is still in the woods about two feet, though but little in the clearings. Commenced on 26th to pile stumps that were pulled last fall; this is the only farm work done this month.

2. Cultivated violet in flower.

3. Sleighing is finished to-day; we have had 177 days of sleighing this last winter, uninterrupted except by fresh storms. An unusually long winter.

7. Spring freshet commenced to-day from the melting of the snows, and without rain.

The frogs "first concert of the season" came off to-day, but proved almost a total failure.

8. Aurora borealis.

9. First appearance of King fishers. The wild yellow violet in flower. The woods are almost entirely clear

of snow, except in sheltered situations and on the mountains.

10. Commenced sowing oats.

11. Lakes Jimmy, Sally and Mary open to-day; Lake Sandford open in narrow parts, but the body of the lake

is still closed.

13. Sowing wheat and planting potatoes.

14. Lakes Sandford and Henderson open, they opened last year on 24th April.

18. Aurora borealis.

June 11. New snow on the mountains this morning.

July 19. A few potato tops killed by frost in sheltered spots.

1

July 26. Commenced haying.

Aug 10. Found ice at the Indian Pass, in the "Ice House," a little cave formed by the debris of the Pass. Aurora borealis to-night.

26. Commenced harvesting oats.

Sept. 6. Cradling wheat.

17. All the potatoes killed by frost.

27. Commenced digging potatoes.

I extract the annexed tables from Thompson's History of Vermont, and although derived from observations taken at Burlington, Vermont, they equally illustrate the advent and progress of the seasons on the western shore of the lake.

The following table, also derived from Thompson's "Vermont," contains the time of the opening and closing the broad lake opposite Burlington, and when the steamboats stopped their regular trips through the lake from Whitehall to St. Johns, for several years.