This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...exposing the surface of the earth to the beneficial action of the sun"s rays; but this operation has not been carried on in New Brunswick to a sufficient extent to account for any general alteration in the climate of the province. The seasons correspond nearly with those in England; that is to say, the hottest month is July, and the coldest January, the thermometer in the former month rarely reaching much above 90, nor in the latter lower than from 10 to 20 below zero; though these are not given as the actual maximum and minimum, so much as a mean of its general range. The winter commences with November, in which month snow usually falls and the streams freeze, nor are they relaxed from this bondage till April. December, however, is often a month of moderate cold, and by no means unpleasant. The weather in April is apt to be dull and heavy, but in May the spring advances with an astonishing rapidity to the luxuriant fertility and glowing fervour of summer. The very rapid transition from one season to the other in America has elsewhere been adverted to, and the consequent sudden progress of vegetation which occasions the soil to engender and to yield luxuriantly all its valuable products within a space which to European husbandmen would seem almost impossible. It is the fact, however, that the seasons here rarely fail by reason of any extreme of the weather. Frosts occasionally occur throughout the summer months; and in those of spring and autumn the change from cold to heat, and vice versa, are frequently both sudden and excessive. This is attributable to the variation of the wind, and the different effects it has, according to the quarter from which it blows, and the tracts it may have traversed. Neither these sudden changes, however, nor the extremes whic...