f
posts, running north and south at the west, during the winter months of
1855, and will illustrate what has been said.

TABLE VIII.

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1855. |JANUARY |FEBRUARY.| MARCH.| APRIL.
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Key West | 67.18 | 65.94 | 70.28 | 75.09
Mean | 66.58 | 68.88 | 72.88 | 75.38
Fort Snelling | 17.09 | 12.62 | 25.30 | 49.86
Mean | 13.76 | 17.57 | 31.41 | 46.34
Fort Kearney | 23.55 | 25.69 | 32.86 | 54.39
Mean | 21.14 | 26.11 | 34.50 | 47.13
Fort Laramie | 35.85 | 29.01 | 36.41 | 52.94
Mean | 31.03 | 32.60 | 36.81 | 47.60
Fort Arbuckle | 41.94 | 39.86 | 49.09 | 67.43
Mean | 39.10 | 43.69 | 53.22 | 61.85
Fort Belknap | 45.92 | 44.49 | 53.09 | 70.00
Mean | 42.80 | 47.47 | 56.90 | 65.79
Fort Chadbourne | 48.89 | 45.87 | 56.68 | 68.51
Mean | 44.29 | 46.75 | 58.01 | 65.52
Fort McKavitt | 46.74 | 44.51 | 53.66 | 67.05
Mean | 44.75 | 46.87 | 57.39 | 66.25
Fort Merrill | 54.51 | 54.65 | 61.82 | 74.50
Mean | 54.82 | 57.20 | 68.66 | 73.27
Fort Brown | 60.23 | 61.60 | 66.24 | 74.98
Mean | 60.41 | 63.63 | 68.95 | 75.05
Fort Inge | 52.21 | 50.63 | 61.22 | 74.48
Mean | 49.46 | 55.39 | 62.63 | 68.02
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The return transit to the south for this winter, 1855-6, has been an
extreme one. It is too early yet (Feb. 18th) to write its history, but the
extreme southern transit is as obvious as the unusual severity of the
cold. The rains which usually fall upon the Southern States are
precipitated further south upon the West Indies, and threaten a
deterioration of their sugar crop. The snow, and cold winds, and ice, of
the middle latitudes, are felt even in Florida. Our sheet of
counter-trade has been exceedingly thin, and the barometer has ranged, in
fair weather, much below the mean. Occasional, and for a part of the time,
_weekly_ periods of an increase of its volume, with a corresponding
elevation of the barometer, and a consequent moderation of the intense
cold, and a storm, have occurred. But those periods have been few and
brief. No regular thaw has yet occurred. From the 26th of December to this
date, at Norwalk, there have