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WILLIAM BASSETT - Served in 1850,'51 and '52.
Chow. ellent. CHARLES MERRITT - Served in 1853, '54, '56, '57 and '58.
John Batchelder. JOHN BATCHELI FR - Served in IS55.
E. A.duyals.
EPHRAIM A. INGALLS - Served in 1559 and '60.
Buy . If youes.
BENJAMIN H. JONES - Served from 1861 to 1875, both inclusive.
Choo. E. Parsons.
CHARLES E. PARSONS - Elected in 1576, and yet [1882] in office.
It need not be remarked that the Clerks are elected annually by the City Council. And the neatness and accuracy of the multifarious records are the best evidence that thus far no mistake in the choice has occurred.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
A GOOD Chronological Table is, of itself, a succinct history. And the following is inserted without hesitation, on account of its unquestionable usefulness, though it was prepared by the writer for the Centennial Memorial, in which and in the book giving an account of the proceedings on the celebration of our Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, it substantially appeared. Additions, however, have been made, and occurrences down to 1882, noted.
1629. Five families, chief among them Edmund Ingalls and his brother Francis, arrive and commence the settlement.
1630. Thomas Newhall born - the first person of European parentage born here. Wolves kill several swine belonging to the settlers, September 30.
Fifty settlers, chiefly farmers, and many of them with families, arrive and locate in different parts of the territory.
1631. Governor Winthrop passed through the settlement, October 28, and noted that the crops were plentiful.
1632. First Church - fifth in the colony -formed ; Stephen Bachelor, minister.
1633. A corn mill, the first in the settlement, built on Strawberry brook.
1634. John Humfrey arrives and settles near Nahant street.
The settlement sends her first Representative- Capt. Nathaniel Turner -to the General Court.
William Wood, one of the first comers, publishes " Nevy Englands Prospect.'
1635. Philip Kertland, the first shoemaker, arrives.
1637. Name of the settlement changed from Saugus to Lynn.
At this time there were thirty-seven plows in the colony, most of them in Lynn. Settlement of Sandwich commenced by emigrants from Lynn.
1638. Firstdivision of lands among the inhabitants.
1639. Ferry established across Saugus river.
First bridge over Saugus river at Boston street crossing built.
1643.
Iron works established near Saugus river ; the first in America.
1644. Hugh Bert and Samuel Bennett, of Lynn, presented to the grand jury as " common sleepers in time of exercise." Both were convicted and fined.
1646. Lynn made a market town - Tuesday, the lecture day, being market day.
1658. Dungeon rock alleged to have been rent by an earthquake, entombing alive Thomas Veal, the pirate, with treasure.
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1666. A year of disasters. Several die of small pox. " Divers are slain by light- ning." Grasshoppers and caterpillars do much mischief.
1669. Boniface Burton dies, aged 113 years.
1671. A year remarkable for storms. A violent snow storm, Jan. IS, with much thunder and lightning.
1680. Dr. Philip Read, the first physician here, complains to the Court of Mrs. Margaret Gifford, as a witch.
The great Newtonian comet appears in November, exciting much alarm.
16SI. The Court allows Lynn to have two licensed public houses.
1682. Old Tunnel Meeting-house built.
1636.
Indian deed of Lynn given, September 4.
Thomas Newhall, the first white person born here, dies, in March, aged 57.
JUSS. I.xcitement about Edward Randolph's petition for a grant of all Nahant.
1602. Great witchcraft excitement.
1694. A church fast appointed by Rev. Mr. Shepard, July 19, for the arrest of the "spiritual plague " of Quakerism.
1 (K) 6). Severe winter ; coldest since the settlement commenced ; much suffering.
1607 Great alarm on account of small pox.
1706. Second division of lands among the inhabitants.
1778.
A public fast held on account of the ravages of caterpillars and canker worms. Extra rdinary darkness at noonday, Oct. 21 ; dinner tables lighted.
1710.
1717. Memorabile snow storms, Fab. 20 4hd 24 ; one-stary houses buried.
1719. Northern lights observed for the first tone, Dec. 17; an alarming display.
1723. Terrific st rm, Feb. 24. The sea came ih raging and roaring fearfully. First mill on Saugus river, at Besten street crossing, built.
1726. £13 15 awarded to Nathaniel Potter, tor linen manufactured in Lynn.
1745. Rev. Mr. Whitefield preaches on Lynn Commun, creating much excitement.
1749. Great drought, hot summer, and immens multitudes of grasshoppers.
1750. John Adam Dagyr, an accomplished shoemaker, arrives.
1755. Greatest earthquake ever konwn in New England, occurs Nov. IS.
A whale, seventy-five feet in length, landed on King's Beach, Dec. 9.
1759. A bear, weighing 450 pounds, killed in Lynn wrods.
1768. A catamount killed in Lynn woods, by Joseph WiDiams.
P tato rat prevails, and canker worms commit great ravages.
1775. Battle of Lexington, Apr 1 19 - five I ynn men killed.
1,76. Twenty-six negro slaves owned in Lynn.
1750. Meinorable dark day, M.wy 19 ; houses lighted as at night.
1782. Whol number of votes given in Lynn, for governor, 57 ; all but 5 for Hancock.
17/4. Gen. Lafayette passed through Lynn, Oct. 25, receiving enthusiastic plaudits.
1758. Gim. Washington passed through town, in October, and was affectionately greeted by old and young.
1793. Lynn post-office established, and first kept on Boston street, near Federal.
1794. On Christmas day, at noen, in the open air, the thermometer stood at So deg.
1795. Brig Peggy wrecked on Long Beach, Dec. 9, and eleven lives lost.
1796. The first fire engine for public use purchased.
I Soo. Memory of Washington honored ; procession and eulogy, January 13. An elephant first exhibited in Lynn. First dancing school opened. Manufacture of morocco introduced.
1 So3. Boston and Salem Turnpike opened, and Lynn Hotel built. A snow storm occurred in May, the fruit trees being then in bloom. Miles Shorey and his wife killed by lightning, July 10.
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1804. Independence day first celebrated in Lynn. Snow fell in July.
1805. First Masonic Lodge - Mount Carmel -constituted June 10.
1808. First law office in Lynn, opened by Benjamin Merrill. Great bull fight at Half Way House. Bulls and bull dogs engaged. Lynn Artillery chartered, November 18, and allowed two brass field pieces. Trapping Lobsters first practised at Swampscott.
1812. Lynn Light Infantry chartered, June 30.
1813. Moll Pitcher, the celebrated fortune-teller, dies, April 9, aged 75.
1814. Lynnfield incorporated as a separate town.
First Town House built.
First Bank established.
1815. Saugus incorporated as a separate town.
Terrific southeasterly gale, Sept. 23 ; ocean spray driven several miles inland ; fruit on the trees impregnated with salt.
1816. Great horse trot on the Turnpike, in Lynn, Sept. 1 ; said to be the first in New England. Major Stackpole's "Old Blue" trotted three miles in eight minutes and forty-two seconds.
1817. President Munroe passed through town.
1819. The great sea-serpent appears off Long Beach. Nahant Hotel built. Alms- house at Tower Hill built.
1824. Gen. Lafayette visits Lynn, Aug. 31, and is enthusiastically welcomed.
1825. First Lynn newspaper -the Weekly Mirror - issued September 3.
1826. First Savings Bank incorporated.
1827. Broad and brilliant night arch, Aug. 28.
1828. A whale, sixty feet long, cast ashore on Whale Beach, May 2.
1829. Splendid display of frosted trees, Jan. 10.
1830.
Donald McDonald, a Scotchman, dies in Lynn alms-house, Oct. 4, aged 108. He was at the battle of Quebec when Wolfe fell, and at Braddock's defeat. First Lynn Directory published by Charles F. Lummus.
1832.
1833. Extraordinary shower of meteors, Nov. 13.
1837.
Surplus United States revenue distributed. Lynn received $14.879, and applied it to the payment of the town debt. Saugus received $3.500, and appropriated it to the building of a Town Hall. Lynnfield received $1.328 29, and applied it to the town debt.
1838. Eastern Rail-road opened for travel from Boston to Salem, Aug. 28.
1841. The first picture by the new art known as Daguerreotype, or Photography, ever taken in Lynn, was a landscape, taken this year, by James R. Newhall, by apparatus imported from France.
1843. A splended comet ; first appeared about noonday, Feb. I.
Schooner Thomas wrecked on Long Beach, March 17, five men perishing.
Breed's Pond formed. Theophilus N. Breed built a dam across the valley, on the northeast of Oak street, flowing some fifty acres, thus forming the pond and securing water power for his iron works.
1846. Mexican war commenced. Lynn furnished twenty volunteers.
Congress boots began to be manufactured.
1847.
Destructive fire on Water Hill, Aug. 9. Large brick silk-printing establish- ment, spice and coffee mill, and two or three smaller buildings destroyed. President Polk made a short visit to Lynn, July 5.
1848. Carriage road over harbor side of Long Beach built.
Lynn Common fenced.
George Gray, the hermit, dies, Feb. 28, aged 78.
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1849. Lynn Police Court established. Large emigration to California.
1850. Lynn adopts the city form of government. Pine Grove Cemetery consecrated, July 24.
Thirteen persons of a pic-nic party from Lynn, drowned in Lynnfield Pond, August 15.
1851.
Ten hour system - that is, ten hours to constitute a day's work -generally adopted. Previously the time was indefinite. Bells were rung at 6 p. m. On March 18, and April 15, the tide, during violent storms, swept entirely over Long Beach.
Hiram Marble commences the excavation of Dungeon Rock.
1852. Swampscott incorporated as a separate town.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian exile, is enthusiastically received here, May 6. Henry Clay's death noticed ; flags raised at half-mast and bells tolled, July 3. Funeral services in memory of Daniel Webster, in First Congregational meeting-house, Oct. 29, the day of the statesman's burial at Marshfield.
IS53. Nahant incorporated as a separate town, March 29.
Prize fight en Lynnfield road, Jan 3 ; parties arrested.
Illuminating Las first lighted in Lynn, Jan. 13.
Cars commence running over Saugus Branch Rail-road, Feb. I.
1855. City Charter so amended as to have the municipal year commence on the first Monday of January instead of the first Monday of April.
1856. Two ball eagles appear on the ice in Lynn harbor, Jan. 17.
Ezra R. Tebbetts, of Lynn, killed by a snow-shide from a house in Bromfield street, Boston, I.cb. 12.
Egg Rock hht shown for the first time, Sept. 15.
IS57. Bark Tedesco wrecked at Swampscott, all on board, twelve in number, perish- ing, Jan. 18.
Many small pearls found in muscles at Floating Bridge and Flax ponds. Trawl hahing began to be practised this year,
Telegraphic cannaanichtin between 1 ynn and other places estaluished.
Impir gin Atlaruc cable celebration, Aug. 17, on the arrival of Queen Vic- toria's message to Pre ident lluch nan.
Blue fish appear in the nton , in large numbers, in early autumn, and arc supposed to have carred on a su cesstul war against the menhaden, as bushels of the letter were picked up diad on the store.
Maggicent comet, Donati's, used in the northwest, in the autumn.
Cath c Cemetery, St. Mary's, cele-rated, Nowv. 4.
IS59. British burk Verren, frien Messina, driven assore on Long Beach, Feb. 2. crew saved by lite-Woat.
Roman Carlile church, St. Mary's, Ash street, burned, May 29.
Bri dant display et worthern ligles , whide lwavens covered, Aug. 28.
I'nin Miket Methodist meeting-hause destroyed by fire, Nov. 20.
Church bells tired at sunr sr, nimm and sun et, Dec. 2, in observance of the cacteen of John Brown, at Charlestown, Va.
1560. Härbir so frozen in January, that persons walked across to Bass Point.
Shoemaker ' great strike commented in February.
Prince hit Wales passed through lynn, Oct. 20. First horse rail-road cars commence running, Nov. 29. Market street first lighted by gas, Dec. 7.
1861. Alonzo Lewis, historian and poet, dies, Jan. 21, aged 66.
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1861. A splendid comet suddenly appears, July 2, the tail having actually swept the earth, three days before, producing no disturbance, and only a slight apparently auroral light in the atmosphere.
The extensive edifice known as Nahant Hotel, destroyed by fire, Sept. 12. Lynn Light Infantry and Lynn City Guards, two full companies, start for the seat of the Southern Rebellion, April 16, only four days after the attack on Fort Sumter, and but five hours after the arrival of President Lincoln's call for troops.
1862. Lynn Free Public Library opened.
Enthusiastic war meeting on the Common, on Sunday, Aug. 31 ; church services omitted.
Soldiers' Burial Lot, in Pine Grove Cemetery, laid out.
Nathan Breed, jr., murdered in his store, Summer street, Dec. 23.
1863.
Extraordinary ravages of caterpillars and canker worms.
1864. The thermometer rose to 104 degrees in shady places, in Lynn, June 25 ; indicating the warmest day, here, of which there had been any record.
Free delivery of post-office matter begins.
Great drought and extensive fires in the woods, during the summer.
First steam fire engine owned by the city, arrives, Aug. II.
The Town House burned, Oct. 6, and Joseph Bond, confined in the lockup, burned to death.
Schooner Lion, from Rockland, Me., wrecked on Long Beach, Dec. 10, and all on board, six in number, perish. Their cries were heard above the roaring of the wind and sea, but they could not be rescued.
1865. News of the fall of Richmond received, April 3. Great rejoicing - church bells rung, buildings illuminated, bonfires kindled.
News of the assassination of President Lincoln received, April 15. Mourning insignia displayed in public buildings and churches.
Corner stone of City Hall laid, Nov. 28.
1866. Gen. Sherman passes through Lynn, July 16, and is cordially greeted. A meteoric stone falls in Ocean street, in September.
1867. Terrific snow storm, Jan. 17.
City Hall dedicated, Nov. 30.
1868. Memorial Day -called also Decoration Day -observed, May 30. Soldiers' graves strewed with flowers. [In 1881 the day was made a legal holiday.] Hiram Marble, excavator of Dungeon Rock, dies, Nov. 10, aged 65, having pursued his arduous and fruitless labors about 17 years. [His son Edwin succeeded him in the work and died at the Rock, Jan. 16, 1880, aged 48, without having reached the supposed deposit of gold and jewels.]
Destructive fire on Market street, Dec. 25. Lyceum Building, Frazier's and Bubier's brick blocks destroyed. Whole loss about $300.000.
1869. Mary J. Hood, a colored woman, dies Jan. 8, aged 104 years and 7 months. Another destructive fire on the night of Jan. 25, commencing in the brick shoe manufactory of Edwin H. Johnson, in Munroe street, and destroying property to the amount of some $170.000.
On the evening of April 15, there was a magnificent display of beautifully tinted aurora borealis, during which a meteor of great brilliancy shot across the eastern sky.
Severe gale on Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 8; next in violence to that of Sept. 23, 1815. Several small buildings destroyed, and a multitude of trees uprooted. More than 400 shade trees prostrated in Lynn.
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1869. The old Turnpike from Salem to Boston becomes a public highway this year. Sidney B. Pratt dies, Jan. 29, aged 54, leaving by will $10.000 for the benefit of the Free Public Library.
1870. Young Men's Christian Association incorporated, March 31.
First regatta of Lynn Yacht Club, June 17.
Land near Central rail-road station sold at $5 per square foot ; the highest rate known in Lynn up to this time.
1871. Rev. Joseph Cook, at the time minister of the First Church. gives a series of Sunday evening lectures, in Music Hall, early this year, creating con- siderable excitement by his rather sensational denunciations. [lle after- wards became famous in this country, in Europe, and in other parts of the world, by his ethical discourses.]
Terrible rail-road disaster at Revere, Aug. 26 ; eleven Lynn persons killed. Whole number of lives Inst, 33 ; number of wounded, about 60.
Electric fire alarm established.
President Grant passed through Lynn, Oct. 16.
William Vennar, alias Brown, murders Mrs. Jones, is pursued, and in his further desperate attempts is shot dead, Dec. 16.
1872. City Hall bell raised to its position in the tower, March 2.
Meeting of the City Council commemorative of the recent death of Professor Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph, April 16.
S. O. Breed's box factory, at the south end of Commercial street, struck by lightning and consumed, Aug. 13. [The summer of this year was remark- able for the frequenry and severity of its thunder storms. ]
Brick house of worship of First Church, South Common street, dedicated Aug. 29.
Ingalls and Cobbet scheel houses dedicated.
Odd Fellows' Hall, Market street, dedicate 1, Oct. 7.
Brick and iron stathom of Eastern Rail-r ad, Central square, built.
Singular disease, called epiz otic, preva ed among horses during the latter part of the autumn. Wheel carriages almost entirely ceased to run, excepting as drawn by oxen, degs, or goats, and sometimes by men.
Much speculation in real estate ; prices high, and business active. Pine Hill Reservoir built.
1873. Pumping engine at l'ublic Water Works, Walnut street, first put in operation Jan. 14.
English sparrows make their appearance in Lynn - no doubt the progeny chthe imported into Boston. [Soon declared] a nuisance.]
Sol ers' Monument, l'ark square, dedicated Sept. 17.
Grand Masmme parade, Oct. 22.
Friends' Ihennlal Conference held here, Nov. 19.
Birch Pond formed, by running a dam across Birch Brook valley, on the east of Walnut street, near Saugus line.
1874.
" I.ynn Home for Aged Wanien " incorporated, Feb. 6.
Grand celebration of St. Patrick's day, in Lynn, March 17, by the Irish organ- izations of Essex county.
IS75. Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Kail-road opened for travel, July 22.
Sea-serpent alleged to have been seen off Egg Rock, in August.
The General Convention of L'niversalists meet in Lynn, Oct. 20.
Great depression in business affairs succeed the days of unhealthy prosperity.
Many tradesmen and merchants fail, and real estate falls greatly in price.
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1875. An unusual number of Tramps -that is, homeless wanderers from place to place - appear in Lynn, and receive temporary relief.
1876. The great World's Exposition, at Philadelphia, marking the centennial year of the Republic. Lynn makes a good show of her manufactures, and a large number of her people attend the exhibition.
A fire occurred in Market street, July 26 destroying some $10.000 worth of property.
The destructive Colarado beetle, or potato bug, first appears in Lynn, this year. Appropriate observance of the centennial year, July 4. "Centennial Memo- rial" published.
Brick engine house, Federal street, built.
Benjamin F. Doak dies, Nov. 8, aged 50 years, bequeathing $10.000 for the poor of the city. [This legacy is now known as the " Doak Fund."]
A splendid meteor passed over the city on the evening of Dec. 20.
1877. Sweetser's four story brick building, Central avenue, with an adjacent building, burned, April 7 ; loss about $115.000.
Extraordinary phosphorescent glow along the shores, in September.
1878. Successful balloon ascension, July 4, Alderman Aza A. Breed, City Marshal Fry, and Mr. Fred Smith, journalist, accompanying the æronaut.
Dennis Kearney, radical agitator and California "sand lot orator," addresses a large crowd on the Common, on the evening of Aug. 12.
Brick fire engine house, Broad street, built.
Higher temperature in Lynn and vicinity, at midnight, Dec. 2, than in any other part of the United States -six degrees higher than in New Orleans, La., seven higher than in Savannah, Geo., nine higher than in Charleston, S. C., and ten higher than in Jacksonville, Florida.
Gold held at par, Dec. 17, for the first time in sixteen years ; that is $100 in gold were worth just $100 in greenback government notes. The extreme of variation was in July, 1864. when $100 in gold were worth $285 in notes. The brick house of worship of the First Methodist Society, Park square, dedicated, Feb. 27.
1879.
The newly-invented telephone, comes into use in Lynn, this year.
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Lynn, celebrated, June 17. [A volume embracing a full account of the proceedings was published by order of the City Council.]
Business begins to become decidedly active after seven years of depression.
John A. Jackson, designer of the Soldiers' Monument, Park square, died in Florence, Italy, in August, aged 54.
St. Joseph's Cemetery (Catholic) consecrated, Oct. 16.
Extraordinary occurrence of a perfectly clear sky, all over the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Nov. 4, as reported by the United States Signal Corps.
1880. Hawkes family gathering, July 28 and 29.
Tubular Wells, Boston street, sunk by the city authorities to gain additional water supply ; first pumping from them, Sept. 4.
The notorious "Morey Letter " appears in the autumn, creating much sen- sation throughout the country.
Beautiful mirage in the bay, Nov. 22.
1881. Young Men's Christian Association Building, Market street, dedicated, Jan. 17. Government weather signals, on High Rock, first shown, Feb. 23. Lynn Hospital incorporated.
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IS81. The "yellow day," so called, occurred Sept. 6. Beautiful celestial phenomena, Sept. 12.
President Garfield's death announced by the tolling of the church bells at midnight, Sept. 19. Memorial services held, Sept. 26.
Free Public Forest Association, or Exploring Circle, formed.
IIon. Enoch Redington Mudge, donor of St. Stephen's Memorial Church, dies, Oct. 1.
St. Stephen's Memorial Church consecrated, Nov. 2.
[As our chapter of Annals closes with ISSt, and it seems desirable to take some notice of events down as near as possible to the time of publication, the following additions are inserted. ]
1882.
The winter of ISSt and '82 was rather remarkable for the quantity of snow, and the long time the earth remained covered. A storm began on the afternoon of Jan- uary 31, during which some eighteen inches fell. And on the next Sunday, Feb. 5, a snow storm occurred that was not for many years before exceeded in violence. The drifts in some places were for a time insurmountable ; and services at several of the principal chur hes were omitted.
On the night of Feb. 15, a building on Munr street, owned by Charles G. Clark, together with one or two others, was burned, Pauling a l-s of s me $20.000.
The Grand Army Coliseum, on Summer street, was dedicated March 15, with appropriate ceremonies. Its seating capacity is much greater than any other place of assembly hitherto crerted here.
On the mì thing of the 15th of March, just before the time for workmen to assem- ble, a terrific steam bedier ex desion tonk place in the rear of the Goodwin last factory, in Spring street. The engineer was killed, and several others badly wounded. One or two adjacent buildings were nich damaged, and a piece of the bo ler, welching about 1.500 jejund, was thrown two hundred feet up ut to the air, and fell in Newhall street, sevch Huh limi fret d tahit.
A tite voirrol on the morning of April 22, at Houghton, Godfrey and Dean's Haper ware wuse, Central avenue, destroying property to the amount of $3.000.
Lleenile De- nele thor apperance here, in the spring.
At 100nghe, M.v 12, anmiriling to the weather report . the thermometer, in Lynn and vielinty, reathed a lower degree than in any other part of the United States ; yet it was not sy low as to be particularly noti_calde.
Memorial Day, May 35, was ilserved as unal ; a dress by Comrade James M. Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Glen Lewis was cunserrated, May 30.
Barnum's " greatest show en carth," visite I Lynn, July 22. Sume half a score of elephants appeared in the street parade. The giant elephant Jum and the nursing baby elephant were both members of the caravan. Some 25.000 persiins attended the canilation, and the amount of money received for adm mion, reached nearly $11.000. The show consisted of a large collection of animals, equestrian, acrobatic, and other circus and semi-dramatic performances. It was, no doubt, the grandest and most costly show ever in Lynn.
An explosion of a part of the underground equipment of the Citizens' Steam Heat- ing Company, at the corner of Washington and Munroe streets, took place, July 27, injuring the street somewhat, and throwing up stones and gravel to the danger
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and fright of persons in the vicinity. And subsequently other explosions took place inducing an appeal to the city authorities for protection.
Nickerson's oil clothing factory, in Swampscott, was burned, August 4. Miss Emma Stone, employed in the establishment, lost her life, and the loss of property amounted to about $9.000.
An extraordinary drought prevailed during the latter part of the summer. Most of the crops about Lynn were absolutely ruined, the unripe fruit dropped from the trees, and much of the shrubbery and many of the trees had the appearance of having been exposed to fire blasts. Yet the springs and wells did not indicate any very marked deficiency of moisture somewhat below the surface. We had an uncom- monly long succession of very warm days, with westerly winds and clear skies. And the peculiar effect on vegetation was, no doubt, attributable rather to the burning sun than the lack of moisture. The spring was backward by full two weeks, and the weather was on the whole anomalous, most of the year.
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