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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 
     
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