The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-08

ing man, has been in Alaska since | 1898. During that time he has al ways been interested in the weather and has kept accurate accounts oi weather conditions as he has found them in the north He has also taken occasion to pick up, in his spare mo- mentS, historical data concerning cold weather. This he has compiled into an article, altho not nearly all of the data he has collected is included The article is as follows: ! With the memory of the hard win ter of year ago still fresh in our minds and the reading of the ther- mometer an ever ready topic at the present time, the following historical data Is of some interest to the readers of this paper.
 In the year 220 A. D. there were five months of cold weather without a thaw in England. In the year 25O A. D. the River Thames was frozen over for nine weeks, and again in 29l A. D. all the rivers in England were frozen over for a period of six weeks. In 359 A. D. fourteen days of extreme cold froze many of the locks and frths in Scotland.
 In the year 40l the Black sea was completely frozen over for 20 days. In 443 there was months of hard winter in Germany. In sos all the rivers in England were again frozen over. this time for two months.
 In the year 55S the River Danube was frozen over from it's source to it's mouth. In CTS the Black sea again froze over, the ice being several feet thick. As one old chronicler says, the ice was thicker than mans height.
 In 695 the ice on the Thames was so strong that inns were built on 1t, In TT the snow lay for three months on the hills and plains of Asia Minor.
 In the year S21 the winter in nearly all of Europe began on September 22 and lasted until April 12.
 In S27 the British Isles were visited bv nine weeks of intense cold weather In S59 the ice on the Adriatic sea was so strong that they crossed it with horses.
 In 9OS all the rivers of England were frozen over for two months, and in 923 the Thames river was ice bound for l3 weeks.
 In 9S7 the whole of northern and middle Europe was gripped in a frightful cold spell for 12O days, be- gining on December p. In the year lO35 all the grains and other crops were frozen on the fourth of June Tn Sweden.
 In 1O4S the Skagerak froze over and great bands of wolves crossed over from Norway to Denmark. In 1863 the river Thames was agaln frozen over for 13 weeks.
 Tn the year 1O6S the rivers in Ger many were frozen so solid that Henry the Eighth marched his armies on the ice. In 1O7O the British Isles were again visited by severe winter, the cold spell lasting from November to April.
 Tn l294 the Skagerak was again frozen over from Norway to Jutland, Denmark, many people driving across with horses. In the winter of l29o the same conditions prevailed in the Baltic sea, many persons crossing from Sweden to Russia by way or Jutland.
 In 1923 the ice was strong enough on the Baltic sea for travellers to go from the Danish Isles to northern Germany. The ice was so strong that inns were built on the ice for the ac- commodations of travellers. In 13S9 many people froze to death in Eng land.
 The year 1899 saw the whole of the North sea frozen over. Travellers crossed from Denmark to Tomesen on the ice.
 Again in 14O7 the Baltic and the North seas were frozen over In 14O9 the Danube was again frozen over from it's headwaters to the mouth Tn 1923 the Baltic was again frozen over. and in 1424 the whole North sea and Baltic again froze over.
 In the year 1434 the British Isles were again in the clutches of fearful winter, putting a tight cover on the Thames. The year 1464 was perhaps the most severe winter France has ever seen. IL is said that the bread and wine froze on the table of the Duke of Burgundy; in Paris and other