Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-13
Remarkable Periods OF Cold.

Gus IN such matters, sends Us the follow
ing record Of periods OF remarkable cold
1t was published some years ago. ana
though old may be Of some interest now
iOl Black Sea was frozen over for
twenty days.
iGS-lhe Black Sea and Straits Of the
Darlanelle, were frozen over.
S22-Ihc Danube, Elbc and Seine wcr,
frozen 50 hard rs 10 bear heavy wagon,
for month
s6O-The Adriatic was frozen
l035-A frost in England, on midsum-
mcr's day, was 50 violent that il DESTROYED
the fruits of the earth.
ll3-The Po was frozen from Crcm.
ona TO the sea. Wine casks were burst
and trees split, by the action of the frost,
with immense noise
l23i--Loaded wagons crossed the
Adriatic 10 Venice.
l23G-Ihe Danube was frozen to the
bottom, and remained so for long time.
l2H-lhe Rhine was crossed bv loaded
wagons, and travellers crossed on the ice
from Norway TO Jutland.
l323-Foot and horse travellers crossed
from Denmark to Lubic and Dantzic.
l33i-All the rivers of Italy were
frozen over.
l4o3-Thc wolves were frozen by the
cold in Denmark, and crossed the ice to
Jutland.
1i3i-It showed forty day, without
interruption,
li6s-The wine distributnd to the sol
diers in Flanders was cut in pieces with
hatchcts
l344-The same thing happened again,
the wine being frozen in solid Jumps.
l63l-32-All the rivers Of Europe were
frozen, and the Huyder Zee; the Helles-
pont was covered with sheet of ice.
l63S-Charlos y, of Sweden, crossed
from llolsticn to Denmark with his whole
army, loot, horses, baggage and artillery.
l66i--Ihc Thames, in England, was
covered with ice sixty-onc inches thick
almost all the birds persisted.
1851 The cold Vas 50 intense that the
wolves entered Vienna, and attacked men
and cattle in the streets,
l693-Ihe same thing occurred. the
famished wolves attacking men and beast,
i'll the streets of Vienna
lG9j-Many people were frozen to death
IN Germany
l7oo-Oeeurrel that famous winter
called by distinction, tie c0H ,ciDter. Al
the rivers and lakes were frozen, and even
the sea for several miles from the shore.
The ground was frozen in England nine
feet deep. Birds and beasts were struck
dead Ill the fields, and men persisted bv
thousands in their houses, In the south
Of France, the olive trees were killed, ana
the wine plantations mostly destroyed
The Adriatlc sea was frozen, and even the
Mediterranean about Genoa and the
citron and orange groves suffered ex-
trcmcly III the finest parts Of Italy.
lIG-The winter was so intense that
people travelled across the straits from
to the province OF Sonia, in
Sweden. Fans were held on the river
Thames.
l,4o-An OK was roasted whole upon
the Thames. The winter was scarcely
inferior TO that of 100 The snow lay
ten feet deep in Spain and Portugal. The
Luyder Zee was frozen over, and thou
sands of people Went over it, and the,
lakes i'll England were frozen over.
During the hard frost, palace was built
OF ice, at st. Petersburg, after an elegant
model, and in the just proportions of
Augustan architecture,
1,44-Snow fell in Portugal to the
depth of ttecHY-H,rGe feet on the level.
This was summer winter in New
England according to Parson Smiths
journal
lii4-15~The winters were very Sc
we're. The Great Belt was frozen over.
In ia, on the 1 It'll of Jsnuary, the Their
in Portland, Me, was Al de-
grees below zero, and on the 22d at the
bottom of the plate.-.SmaH's J0UHal
1910, Jan, 13.-Quicksilver was frozen
hard at Moscow
1S4S.-Jan. 10, at o'clock, the ther4
at Portland, was 3 degrees below
zero. Jan. H. at same place, thermometer
10 to ~ degrees below zero. AT Boston,
II degrees below. In some parts of New
England the thermometer stood at 30 and
40 degrees, end the day was known as
the Cold Tuesday
lS56-Jan. | |, the thermometer in Bos-
ton was . degrees below at sunrise. Thus
the 10th and llth of January, 1873, 1916.
lS4s, and this, 1859, were cold days and
noticed as such.
1S59-The last winter, so mild in this
country, was particularly severe in Eu-
'opss Thus, for the first time in the pres
mt century, the Pc was frozen over at
Ferara, admitting for long period the /
onstant passage of man and beast At
Jonstantinople, on the Sd of February,
now had fallen without interruption for
fifteen days There had not been !
winter of equal severity for more than
wenty years. The snow extended to