We have had for the past tio weeks perhaps the coldest weather we ave ever experienced down here. The ground has been covered with snow since Christmas and the thermometer hus registered each morning from seven to fifteen degrees above zero Fuhr. The mercury has touched a lower point a few times in the past ten yours but there has never been such a long-continued period of low temperature. We have been encouraged to attempt the experiment of putting up ice, and our medical colleague, Dr. J., has secured the thanks of the community by building a small icehouse on what are supposed to be scientific principles and has stored some seven or eight tons of excellent ice from three to seven inches thick. Unless the scientific principles alluded to exhibit that disappointing perversity which is often observed in practice, we may hope to be several degrees cooler next summer than we have ever been before.
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