Kirin, Dec. 10.
Winter was rather late beginning, but the cold during November has been remarkably intense, the thermometer being below zero on e2ver-al nights in succession. Two heavy falls of snow made the roads for a time nearly impassable. At the beginning of last month we had one; of the most beautiful phenomena that I have ever seen. A fall of: sleet and rain was immediately fol—lowed by a sharp frost with the-result that tress and bushes were covered with sheets of ice. When the sun came out the glittered magnificently with all the colours
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