 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - Medicine - 1809 - 434 pages
...of so great a fall of it. The continuation of snow, besides its usefulness to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for the transportation of produce...winters usually break up about the middle of March." The military tract in Onandago county, is thus described by Mr. M. p. 14 to 16. " The military tract... | |
 | Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan - New York (State) - 1849 - 1266 pages
...of so great a fall of it. The continuation of snow, besides its usefulnes to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for the transportation of produce...winters usually break up about the middle of March. The cheapness and fertility of land in this country, together with its easy communications with different... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1849 - 1260 pages
...continuation of snow, besides il • usefulness to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for UK transportation of produce to market, a pair of horses...thirty bushels, at the rate of 35 or 40 miles in a day. Thr winters usually break up about the middle of March. The cheapness and fertility of land in this... | |
 | James Rumsey - Steam-navigation - 1850 - 752 pages
...of so great a fall of it. The continuation of snow, besides its usefulness to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for the transportation of produce...winters usually break up about the middle of March. The cheapness and fertility of land in this country, together with its easy communications with different... | |
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In the beginning of the year 1800^ snow fell in most places about three feet deep but there is no other instance known of so great a fall of it. The continuation of snow, besides its usefulness to grain, renders sleighs common and convenient for the transportation... 