Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-01-22
PERIODS OF REMARKABLE COLD.

my crossed on the ice.
463. A frost in Constantnople which COM
menccd in October and continued until Februry.
464. The two seas were frozen one hundred
miles from shore.
16S. The Black Sea and Straits of the Oar
danelics were frozen over.
S22. The Danube, the Elbe and Seine were
frozen so nard as to bear heavy wagons for
month.
$50. The Adriatic was frozen.
S74. Snow fell from the beginning of No
vember to the end of March.
S9l and S93 The vines in Europe were kill
by frost.
1885. A frost in England on midsummer's
day was so violent that it destroyed the fruits
of the earth.
1888. The Po was frozen from Crcmona to
the sea. Wine casks were burst, and trees split
by the action of the frost, with immense noise.
1916. The Po was frozen fifteen ellis deep
Wine casks were burst.
1884. Loaded wagons crossed the Adriatic
to Venice.
1886. The Danube was frozen to the bottom,
and remained so for a long time.
1861. The Categat was frozen from Norway
to Jutland
1899. The Rhine was crossed by loaded
wagons, and travellers crossed the ice from Nor
way to Juntland.
1928. Foot and horse travellers crossed from
Denmark to Lubbock and Dantzic
1874. All the rivers Italy were frozen over.
1403. The wolves were driven by the cold
from Denmark, and crossed the ice to Jutland.
1884 1t showed forty days without interrupt
ton.
1860. The Danube was frozen two months
116S. The wine distributed to the soldiers in
Flanders was cut to pieces with hatchets.
l5i4 The same thing happened again. The
wine being frozen in solid Jumps.
1865. The Scheldt was frozen so hard as to
bear loaded wagons three months.
1894. The sea (Adriatic) was frozen at Ven
ice
l62l-22 All the rivers of Europe were fro
zen, and the Zuyder Zee, the Hellespont was
covered with sheet of ice, and Venetian fleet
was frozen up in the lagoons of the Adriatic.
1850. Charles y of Sweden crossed from
llostein to Denmark with his whole army, foot,
horse, baggage and artillery. The rivers in It.
ally bore heavy carriges.
1864. The Thames, in England, was cover
ed with ice sirtyone inches thick almost all the
birds persisted.
1854. The oaks were split in England, and
coaches drove along the Thames.
1851. The cold was so intense that the wolves
entered Vienna, and attacked men and cattle in
the street.
1893. The same thing occurred, the famish-
ed wolves attacking men and beasts in the streets
of Vienna.
1885 Many people were frozen to dcsh in
Germany.
1899 Was nearly as bad.
1909. Occurred that famous winter called
by distinction, the cold cinter. All the rivers
and lakes were frozen, and even the sea for sew
eral miles from the shore The ground was
frozen in England nine feet deep. Birds and
beasts were struck dead in the fields, and men
perishek by thousands in their houses. In the
south of France, the olive trees were killed, and
HdG pGGiiy GGy e{tn {atsnittr9yed tly elll Tht
ranean about Genoa and the citron and orange
groves suffered extremely in the finest parts o
ltay.
l7l6. The winter was so intense that people
travelled across the straits from Copenhagen tC
the province Of Senia, in Sweden. Fairs were
held on the river Thames.
1926. In Scotland. multitudes of cattle ant
sheep were buried in the snow.
1877. In January the ground in New Eng
land froze four feet deep.
1740. An OK was roasted whole upon tn,
Thames. The winter was scarcely inferior tC
that of 1909. The snow lay ten feet deep il
Spain and Portugal. Tpe Zuyder Zee was fro
zen over, and thousands of people went over it
and the lakes in England were frozen over
During the hard FROST palace was built of ic'
at St. Petersburg, after an elegant model, ant
in the just proportions of Augustan architecture
l744. Snow fell in Portugal to the depth o
ticenty-three feet on the level. This was sum
mer winter in New England, according to Par
son Smiths journal.
1154-55. The winters were very severe. Ii
England the strongest ale exposed to the air il
glass was covered with ice one-eighth of an incl
thick. These were very mild winters in Ney
England. See Smiths journal.
III. The Elbe was frozen to the bottom.
l716. The Danube bore ice fire feet thicl
below Vienna. Vast numbers Of the feathere,
and fnny tribes perished. In Holland an,
France wine froze in the cellar.
1774-75. The winters were very severe
The little belt was frozen over In 1774, on tn
llth of January, the thermometer in Portland
Me-, was II degrees below zero. and on the 22'
at the bottom of the plate. Smiths journal.
1906. Perhaps the coolest day ever know
in London was Dec 20, 1896, when the ther
mometer was l6 degrees below zero.
1910, Jan. Is. Quicksilver was frozen har,
at Moscow.
From 1900 to 1912. The winters were re
markably cold, particularly the latter in Russia
which surpassed in intenseness that of any win
| ter III that country ior many preceeuiIS years
and caused the destruction of the French arm,
in its retreat from Moscow What with the los
in battle, and the effects of this awful and cal
amitous frost, France lost in the campaign @
this year more than 100000 men.
4 1S4S. Jan. 10, at s o'clock, the thermomete
in Portland was degrees below zero. Jan. i
at same place, thermometer 10 to 20 degrees be
low zero. At Boston IL degrees below. L
some parts of New England the thermomete
stood at 80 and 40 degrees and the day wa
known as the "Cold Tuesday,"
1856. Jan. 10 the thermometer in Bosto
was degrees below at sunrise. Thus the lot
or llth days of January 1774. 1913, 1856 an
this, 1850, were cold days, and noticed as sucl
1858. The last winter, so mild in this cour
try, was particularly severe in Europe. Thu
for the first time in the present century, the P
was frozen over at Ferrara, admitting for lon
period the constant passage of man and beast
At Constantinople, on the Sd of February, sno'
had failed, without any interruption, for fiftee
days. There had not been winter of equal Sc
verify for more than twenty years. The sno'
extended to Smyrna, and the adjacent district
OF Asia Minor and the Greek Islands were clotf
ed tn white, an appearance unusual and remark
able. In Asia Minor Greek Monastery wa
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