'That may seem to some readers an un-_ necessary statement, but those who have carefully followed the said almanac in the Mr. past with regard to the weather of this part of China, have been obliged to acknowledge that its' prophecies or forecasts are made with no little judgment—the result of many years of careful observation, This year there was a bad break, the frost which was to have appeared in October putting of its arrival nearly a month.
80th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.