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reaches a house, can save him. Few people at present perish in America duiing winter , the roads being more frequently travelled, and the inhabitants guard- ing more effectually against the cold than formerly. The fine sand—like dust, which consists of snow, in the most minute but intensely frozen particles, and which searches, when whirled along by the impetuo- sity of the wind, through the smallest chinks of window frames, or the least opening in a house, often leaves large heaps of snow on the floor, in the course

of a few hours. The Canadians and Acadians call this kind of drift La Poudre.

When any part of the body is frost-bitten, the most? 1 , effectual remedy—and that which removes the effect '

of being frozen, which is much the same as that of It being burnt—is rubbing the part affected, before approaching a fire or warm room, with snow. ‘V ' A phenomenon appears frequently during Winter, known by the appellation of silver frost. When a fine misty rain takes place, with the wind east, or north-east, (the frost not being sufficiently keen to congeal the rain until it falls,) the moment it rests on any substance, it adheres and freezes, incrusting every tree, shrub, or whatever else is exposed to the weather, with ice. The forest assumes, in conse- quence, the most magnificent splendour, and continues in this state until it thaws, or until the icy shell is shaken off by the winds. The woods, thus robed, especially if the sun shine, exhibit the most brilliant

appearance. Every tree is loaded as if with a natural VOL. I. . I