Ne Sen,—Yonr Ningpo correspondent, dis. coursing on the old but ever new topic the weather, informs us that snow on the hills in the utter end of March is a rare phenomenon. Certainly the wet and cold of the Inst 10 days have been wnnsual; and more rain has fallen in one week, I believe, than in the twelve months of 1873. But sharp cold in March and early April are by no means rare, My work having taken nie much into the country, I have kept a weather record more or leas regularly since 1862; and I find the following entries, which may ho sufficient to warn excuron season of the year not to go too lightly clad.
March 27 & 28, 1863.—Water jars covered lard frost.
March 27, 1865.—H: 5 bitterly cold.
April 7, 1867.—Very cold;_snow on the distant hills.
March 7, 1863,—Snow and intense cold. in 1871. As it may prove interesting to your readers, I give you a few particulars our trip, mexsureients, &e.
Wo estimated—
Odawarra Hotel. Sea lo Batta 1,880 feet. 75 Hakoni 5, +2370 4, 75 shi - 2,720 77 Senkokuhara. 3900 3 74 Shinoku Pass 9,380 5, 74 Gotemb 1,620 5, 75 Sub shin: 2810 5, 66 Ast hut on Fi 17,750 3, 63 Bhor 6th do.: 94790}, 37 Yap "13,10 5, 41 8th do. "11,680 5, 49
Bthhouseon Yoshidaside. 8,680 66 Yoshida: 3,050 5, 59 Fust before arriving at the Sth hut, it became most bitterly cold with a strong wind, and so thick a Scotch mist that it was almost impossible' to see one another a yard of a little time we heard the welcome voices of the guides we had, sent up the night before, and on reaching the hut we found " splendid charcoal tire and lots of hot native tea—no sugar, and no milk, but never did tea taste so delici We had a capital night's rest, next morning at 3 o'clock to at Fusi by moonlight. 'The top seemed only alittle way off, 80 after having some hot "chow-chow" and despatching our baggage for the ther side, we started to ascend. It was one of those' lovely Autumn mornings that are 0 enjoyable in Japan—sesresly a cloud to beseen; the sea, the the mountains (some in active eruption) the valleys and the sun shining on the snowy peaks to the North was a sight beyond description.
Sitting out of the wind it was pretty warm on the top of Fusi—no snow, no water (the cook bless him, broke our' bottle of the way up) and only a few dropped into a little John Exs 1," enabled us to take an observation aid the exact height of the mountain.
Regarding our idea of the crater I cannot do better than quote Lieut. Fagan's remarks. He estimates the approximate diameter of the crater at 590 yards, with a depth of 440 feet. He says ihe bottom of the crater appeared to consist of a comparatively small patch of sand, but it might have been dirty snow. The sides are all loose clinker, affording no foothold unless with the assistance of a rope.
We were sitting enjoying a ham sandwich some 2,000 feet above the clouds Wittiameon. Beattie.
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