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1234. Mediterranean frozen; traffic with carts.
1420. Bosphorus frozen.
1468. Wine at Antwerp sold in blocks.
1658. Swedish artillery crossed the sound.
1766. Snow knee-deep at Naples.
1789. Fahrenheit thermometer marked 23° below zero at Frankfort, and 36° below at Basle.
1809. Moscow, 48° below zero, greatest cold recorded there; mercury frozen.
1829. Jakoutsk, Siberia, 73° below zero on the 25th of January; greatest cold on record.
. 1846. December marked 25° below zero at Pontarlier; lowest ever marked in France.
1864. January, Fahrenheit stood at zero in Turin; greatest cold recorded in Italy.
Captain Parry, in his Arctic explorations, suffered for some time fifty-one degrees below zero Frost is diminishing in Canada with the increase of population, as shown by the fact that Hudson's Bay was closed from 1828-37, 184 days per annum, and from 1871-'80 only 179 days per annnm.
 
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