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'" The weather during the past week (January 2) xhibited itselfto us under every variety of aspect, rest, snow, rain and sunshine. On Tuesday last everal foot passengers crossed the Hillsborough -iver on the ice, and on the same day a gentleman rossed York River opposite Potosi, with a horse and arriole. Next day (Wednesday) it blew with great iolence, from'the S. W,, accompanied with snow. he swell oftthe sea 'made numerous large fissures n the 'ice which soon after began to break up. Since hat period until this morning, we have had a suc- ession of violent gales with occasional showers of ain and snow; but the weather is 'now mild and se- ene, with a gentle breeze from the S. W. The ap- earance of the ice floating about the rivers, with ere and there a patch of snow, is almost the only race of winter =now discernable in this quarter. The ommunication with 'the opposite banks of'the rivers ,‘y means of the ferry-boat is resumed. The Straits re full of soft drift ice, andthe mails unable to cross 0 Pictou.”

Front these old memoranda will be seen how un- ertain are the winters of Prince Edward Islahd, ometimes long and sometimes short, sometimes se- ere and sometimes mild, sometimes critical from arious causes. and sometimes abundant in all need- ful comforts, but when all has been said that can be aid against thefirst three months of the year, there emains yet a good deal to say in their favor. In his season of snow, lie pleasures and employments impossible at other times. Nature showers upon‘the oads the .voiceless materialthat makes the means ftravelling smooth and accessible to all, calls forth he gaily furred sleigh, and the skeleton home i rought sled—the fancy turnout of the man oftaste nd money, and the single~barred, ring-hamed, har- essless, turnout of the man of expedients. Nature bridges over the rivers, and connects their opposite anks, with her far-reaching and trackless sheets of cc, and the woods disgorge their fuel and their tim— ber ware by tons, to glide over the broad surface of

he ice king’s acres towards the homes Qf‘falnilies J