Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-03-17

the severe weather, IN order 10 recohcle 9"t
citizens to our Moderated climate, by shew-
ing them the horrors of a storm more than
a century ago
From the Boston Evening Transcript.
AN HORRlD SNOW.
Boston, lOA Dec. 17l7.
On the twentieth Of the last February,
there came on a Snow. which being added
unto what had covered the ground few days
before, made a thicker mantle for our moth
err, than what was usual; And we Storm with
it was, for the following day, 50 violent as
TO make all communication between ye neigh
bors every where to cease. People, for some
hours, could not pass from one side Oh
street unto another, and ye poor women,
who happened in this crltleal time 10 tail m
to Travail, were put into Hardships, which
produced many old Stories Tor US But Oa
We teeaty fourth day of ye Month, comes Pc
lon on Ossa; Another Snow came on, which
almost buried We memory of ye former, with
Storm so famous that Heaven laid an In
teraict on We Religious Assemblies through
out we country on the Lords day, We
like whereunto had never been seen before
The Indians near an hundred years old at
firm, that their Fathers never told them oil IA
ny thing that equalled it Vast numbers Of
Cattle were destroyed in this Calamity
Whereof some were, of ye Stranger sort,
were found standing dead on their legs, as if
they had been alive many weeks after, when
ye Snow melted away.--And others had their
eyes glazed over with ice at such rate that
being not far from We sea, their mistake OF
their way drowned them there. One gentle
man, on whose Farm were now lost above
100 Sheep, which with other Cattle vera
inferred (shall say) or hnirsd, in the Snow,
writes me word that there were t,o0 sheep
very sngularly circumstanced. Fer no less
than eight and twenty days after the storm
che people pulling out the Ruins Of above an
100 Sheep out Of Snow Bank, whah lay
is feet high, drifted over them, there was
two found alive, which had been there all
this time and kept themselves alive by eating
the wool Of their dead companions When
they were taken out they she'd their own
Fleeees, but gott into good Case again
Sheep were not we only creatures that lived
unaccountably, for whole weeks without
their usual sustenance, entirely buried in ye
Snow drifts.
The Seine had a share with yo Sheep in
strange suryiyals. A man had a couple of
young Hogs, which he gave ever for dead,
But on the twenty seventh day otter their
Bank, at the bottom ofwhch they had found
"A little Ramsey to feed upon. The Poultry
as unaccountably survived as th1se Hens
were found alive after seven Gays, Turkies
were found alive after FIVE and twenty days,
buried in We Snow, aud at distance from ye
ground, aud altogether destitute Of any thing
to feed them. The numbered creatures that
kept a Rigid Fast, shut up in snow for d.
verse weeks together, and were found alive
after all, have yielded surprising stories un-
10 US.
The wild creatures Of We Woods, We out
goings Of We Evenings, made their Descent
as well as they could in this Time OF
Scarcity for them towards We Seaside. a
vast multitude of Deer, for we same cause,
taking We same course, and ye Deep Snow
Spelling them Of their only Defence, which
is 30 run, they became such prey 10 the SC
Deyourers, that it is thought notone in TWEEN
ty escaped. But here again occurred Gu
rioslty. These caniyorous Sharpcrs, and es-
pecially the Foxes, would make nocturnal
visits to the Pens, where the people had their
sheep defended from them. The poer Ewes
big with young were so terrified with the fire.
quent approaches Of the Foxes, and the Ter
ror had such impression on ye Lambs brought
forth in ye Spring following, were Of Mon
sleur ReipGYd s complexion, when ye Dams
were either Hbiis or Black. 1t IS remarka-
BILE that Immediately after We fall of We Snow,
an intimate multitude Of SpGryo,os made their
Appearance, but then, after q short eontnu-
ence, all disappeared.
1t is incredible how much damage was
done 10 ye Orchards, For ye Snow freezing
to a crust as high as the boughs Of yo trees.
anon split you to pieces. The cattle also
walking on ye crusted Snow dozen foot
from ye ground, SO fed upon We Trees as We
~ much TO damuily them. The ocean wal
in prodis ious lernent, alterit was over, vast
heaps Of little shells, were driven ashore
where they "erc never seen before Mighty
shoals Of Porpoises also kept play day II
the disturacd waves our barboIs The ode
Accidents befalljng many people, whose cot
tages were totally covered With We Snowant
40 ,e yaly tops Of their chimuies 70 be seen
would 4aard story. Bat there not being a
rr pelston to Philosophy in them, iolJca
Them.
aud now lon Sal, Terris -N.gis AnC