The clouds in the skies; the satiny beech-limbs; the little intertwined branches of the forest-canopy; the hoar-frost that covered the foliage on the groundeverything grew flushed and red.

He passed from one of the party to the other, not even neglecting the muleteers, examining their limbs, and more especially their ears, to see that they had quite escaped the influence of the frost, and was only happy when assured by his own observation that the terrible danger they had run was not likely to be attended by any injurious consequences.

Beyond this, the building, the entertainment, and the brotherhood, are marked by a severe monastic self-denial, which appears to have received a character of barren and stern simplicity from the unvarying nakedness of all that meets the eye in that region of frost and sterility.

It rose perhaps twenty feet above the débris at its base, sheer, gray, its surface almost intact except for an insignificant number of frost fissures.

Frost from October the 1st, till February 26th, 760.

Frost for 9 weeks.

Frost on Midsummer Day so vehement that the corn and fruits were destroyed.

Frost from November to April.

Frost for 15 weeks.

Thames frozen down to Gravesend; 12 weeks frost.

Frost for 13 weeks.

Frost for 9 weeks.

Frost from November to January 1789, when the Thames was crossed opposite the Customhouse, the Tower, Execution Dock, Putney, Brentford, &c. It was general throughout Europe.

Frost the most severe on Dec. 25th that had ever been felt in the memory of man.

Severe frost, Thames frozen, and tremendous falls of snow.

A French writer who visited England during the severe frost in the year 1688, says, (in a small volume which he published in Paris,) "that besides hackney-coaches, a large sledge, or sledges, were then exhibited on the frozen Thames, and that King Charles passed a whole night upon the ice.

" The following extract is also an account of this frost by an eye-witness; which may be seen in the Beauties of England and Wales, vol.

x. page 83: he says, "On the 20th of December, 1688, a very violent frost began, which lasted to the 6th of February, in so great extremity, that the pools were frozen 18 inches thick at least, and the Thames was so frozen that a great street from the Temple to Southwark was built with shops, and all manner of things sold.

This day the frost broke up.

The severe frost, before noticed, did not break up till the end of February, and with the thaw the plague frightfully increased in violence.

Often they are driven through frost and snow without either stocking or shoe, until the path they tread is died with their blood.

Her appearance bore out the legend of her headache: she looked like a garden after an early frost.

Whenever the fire was allowed to get low, the beams overhead became coated with hoar-frost; and even when the temperature was raised to the utmost possible pitch, it was cold enough, at the extreme ends of the apartment, to freeze a jug of water solid.

It was a bright, still, frosty night, and the air felt intensely sharp, as if needles were pricking the skin, while the men's breath issued from their lips in white clouds and settled in hoar-frost on the edges of their hoods.

Who will pretend that Flint, Alden, Comly, Jaudon, Russell, Bacon, Lyon, Miller, Alger, Maltby, Ingersoll, Fisk, Greenleaf, Merchant, Kirkham, Cooper, R. G. Greene, Woodworth, Smith, or Frost, has exhibited greater skill?