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MONTpiELIER, 'l'RE CLIMATE. 173tw_nty·one minutes past four, at W. S. 'V.i.8. W. 'fhe ithermometer i8at61 in the shade. Thermometers, however, are no criterion for animalsensation. Pinks are now dispensing their odours in the open air. Asevere winter ·kjllsthe olive",:tree;. but not more than two so mischieNOushave(}cçurJ;ed;i\\\~thiin.·· the lllemoryof r~lan. In these, many (not aIl)olive·tree~ii were ~iU~fi~~s~riolJsloss to land.proprieton;.. In February,heJ;e, if nnusiual~.everitydonot. intervene, the almond.tree cornes intoblossom; and this tree is one of the correctest tests of c1imate. FrtlÏL i 8preçàri()us, as theearliest blossoms are usually nipped, with a fall coe'J.liali~~ththe luxuriance of their promise, by unseasonable severity.Rut to continue on the subject of the sea­$onsof this:iJitel'e~tingJrac~,r;th~.. northern. border ofthe Mediterranean,-·Eroduce l1as.jtoohere,J.l~:l"fqr~J.lniatC::]Y'~itselJ,emiesfor aU sc::asops :.as,fqJ;;lllstIitPCe, theformidable.lramontanein1heatmosphere. This is the110Itth,.east~ind,whiçh,concentrating by condensation in the mountains,swe~ps in its course the plain .country,bringing ,vith it, in the wintc::r,coId; in. summer, famine.In this latter season its blasts are intenselyhO~'i(met()orologiçal observations, when duly adverted to, will explainaU this: :N"ature.harmonizes throughout,) shl'ivel up the corn, and leavenpt.halfj..cro;Pito the reaper. The wretched residue too is steely, andyieldsret1lrnat the mill ev.ellless th'an its promise. It i8 a true, suying"" No one knows the inconveniences ofa bouse until lI.e has lived in it."Thesàme l)olds goodas to a country. Rain in summer the parchedtravellet's eyehails as the !lH~nna from heaven. It is far otherwise withthe farm.~f. ~f itJurU during the flowering of the wheat, this never proclllces him halfa crop. TIHlt it should never recover is the mç>re remart\rable,for this is nearly the climatewhere wheat shoüld be indige­I10US; and with us it seems to be an ascertained fact, that this grainwillreproduce its blOSSOUlas often as washed away, during the whole