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Title: Extract Describing "Extraodinary Weather" in Canada and U.S.A.
ID3922
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
File1811-20/141
Year1816
Senderunknown
Sender Genderunknown
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender Religionunknown
OriginHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Destinationunknown
Recipientunknown
Recipient Genderunknown
Relationshipunknown
SourceThe Belfast News Letter, Friday, 12 July 1816.
ArchiveThe Central Library, Belfast.
Doc. No.9506135
Date12/07/1816
Partial Date
Doc. TypeLET
LogDocument added by LT, 15:06:1995.
Word Count101
Genre
Note
TranscriptA letter [from?] Halifax, dated June 11, says - "There has not
been, for upwards of forty years, so backward a season known in
Nova Scotia as the present. Although now in the middle of June,
but little vegetation has taken place, and there is scarcely any
seed sown in the ground. Ice was seen on the morning of the 11th
at the harbour, and a few days since snow was falling in different
parts of the country. The weather in the southern parts of the
United States is equally extraordinary, and the farmers have been
obliged to plough up the ground, and plant a second time their
spring seed.