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Show EMIGRANT'S GUIPE. "The Wabash freezes almost annuaJJy, but only from three to foui· teen days. In all Kentucky ~nd tile b::t ·in of Ohio, frost remains on the ground, ordinarily, only from tlm~ e to fifteen Jays, and in the course of January there is frequently c.hys that are rea:Jly warm, aud when Fahrenheit's thermometer rises to !'rom 50° to 60°, with south· west winds and a pure and brilliant sky. Spring brings with it rain ~ and sudJ.en showers, with northwest and 11ortheast winds. Forty <lays ttfter the vernal equinox, violent hc:.lfs commence. These heats are in full t~Jrce during tbe sixty or seYcnty days tbat follow the sum. mer solstice ; the thermometer stan 1 S ::~ t from ~6° to 27° of Rea umer (D0-95 d grees of Fahrenheit.) During the whole of this tia1e: storms occur al1 1ost daily on tlte country r;ear the Ohio: these storms produce a heavy beat which is not 1empered lJy the rain. Sometimes rains are brought Ly soutb ancl southwest ''rinds, at other times lhey are produced by the ev~porati on of tlu! \\' · ter of the ri\'e r, anJ from tbe vapours of the va st forest th at ev ry wrH·rc em' .r tbe adjacEnt country. 'l~he rain falling in torrents, efre.::lH's Lut (or a moment the parched wil, and tbe hf'at of next Jay for incr it tv ascend chanU'r.s it iu the morning into a thick mist, and. iillally ~t lo clouds, tl;us cot~tinu· :.1lly reuewing the e~ectr~cal process* cf the f(mner d<ly. ~f'l1e temperature of the water ts r;:nsed to, fr m 64° to CG0 • the ni<rhts are calm an d 1. t .IS not b ecto re 8 or l 0 in ibe morning, tha't a ligbt brreze rises' from the west or southwest, ~nd wlJich C€ases about four o'clock in the r.fternoon. t * Mr. Vo~n~y, accorr~iog to bis O\Vn acconnt, resided in tllis re:;ion only a very shor~ tune, alld ~v.rde!rtly collected Li~i facts from pet·sons who wore very ttnflt to gtve the reqmsrte wformation, Ol' who must have nlisnnuer·stootl his views. We rec ~llect ~1 f'aJ'i ng A. ~entlcman in Wa~b i n~;lon, Pen n!Sy lvania, using a remark respectmg thr · respN:table travelleJ· thRt we believe toLe ::-t rictly corred, because corrobot·ated !Jy others, and which will tcnJ to ex1 Jain d arly the cause, why a man. so ahl: fls Volrtey e~r·t~-t i 11ly \l:as to observe uatu s·al phenomcua, :hould detml estnbhshed em·or, rath~ 1· titan develope the onliuary )aws ~>f the elunate of places thronsh whicil he travelled. Thts gentleman observed, thnt though Mr. Volney unde1·stood the English language pe1-f~ctly well, he ~poke it in sucls a man net· that lis expressious wet·e £t·eque~tly m1snnd er·stooll; and that Lis method of collrci.in"' information was, bJ: puttsog set que .. tions_ to pn.•·t!cular persons, and noting the ;;,gwers. Jt v. a. !Jii r:llsfortur~e to set out Wllh op1n1ons fot·med from theory, and of course his questtO. ns. natu1·al!y t~nded to es:~abiish those opinions, hy eliciting ans\ ·ers in con· for msly to ~he W1shcs of the mtenogaLor. It may ue obset·ved , hovrever, as sing11· l 8 1''. tl! at th 1s trave llet· evin ccs mot·a accurate kuow leuge oft he geography of the ~~ lltted States, thun any EUI·opcan whose v.·orks have reached our hnuds. ? here Call sca,-ce he.a do~tbt, th at if he !sad passed the Alegh<wy mountaius Into tl~e .val!ey ?[ Ob:o, w1tbout ever having read ooe wot·d npon the country, that hts 1nr1watrons would have been infinitely more iu confol'rnity to his facts, than they were as published, dbfigured uy llypothesis. . t From such an account we would be led to consider the climate of this re~ 10,111i5 at !east regulur, but from an experience of upwards of twenty ycarii restdence HJ the country, we would feel inclinP.d to O'ive the seasons any gene· tal chn ·~cter, rathc1· than that of rf'gular·ity. Jn fact,bfrorn the city of Pittsl>UJ'g to. tb.f l c1t·v of New O•·· l."... ans ' 1· nc JU S.•J Ve, any, or a JJ pla ces, w1·1 l prc~ent two sue·· w,,eossurl vde tyheoa rs, h whos · meteoro. lor:ical chan"f'S , ill difler altnost as much as ~· o · · - d ~'3e c anges many g1veu year at the local e}.lremcs \Ve hnvc mon· ttone · Every person, the least eapable of p.re scr ' h1n- tlse rtlits CJf e~pcrieuce, JUIJ:'lt acc~de u tl..e t · tl f t f - ·· . n · tl l u 1 <: t HI o.·rgour~ ohet vnlwn. KMIG.RANT'S GUIDE. 23!3 ~(I n ev(lry 5e~son the oominant wind is southwest, or the cwrrent of air that descenus the channel of the river Ohio, comin"' from that of th.e Mi ~~ iss~ppi, where tl~e c~urse of this wind is south, bfrom the gulf of Mex1co.* 1. found tl11s wmd warm and stormy, at my entrance into the VC1lley ~f tbP. Kenhaway, where n.o doubt it raises tbe temperah~ r\,; by arre:, ttn ~ the heat at the. foot of .the. mountains: it changes ihl cltrectJOn, fiJI!ow 1ng the curves of the Ohto nver. This wind is sometim~ s tbougltt west, or south, but is in reality always the same current 0~ air, auu pre\'ai~s five-s ixths ~arts of the year, leaving to the other wmds only onf-!·Stxth. It Jommates over Kentucky, but Joes not th.ere prouuce. the sam~ effects; because the Ohio valley, in a width ?t 15 or 1 !3 r~lles,. is moistened uy copious rains; the interior country IS parcheJ wt th viOlent dro!Jgnt, that continues sometimes for three months tog thf:r; anJ the farmers have the vexation to beholu from the summit of the hills which border this vale, a sea of mists and rain wbose skirts touch, but never pass this border. "At the autumnal equinox, rain comes with northeast, southeast, and even northwest winds. The coolness they superinduce is the forerunner of frost. Autumn is a season of mild, serene weather, and surpa~ses the three other seasons in pleasantness ; because, in all North Ame rica, there is no ~eason answering to sprirJO'.f " Such i~ the climate of Kentucky a11d of. all the basiRs of Ohio. We must aJvance far nurtlnvarJ to finJ auy remarloble chan()'es and particularly to find a harmony with the Atlantic coast. Evenb at'Nia- *This .ohsP.r~ation is i ~reat part .correct, and is the only phenomenon that P.r~seuts ttself 1n defence o( Lh~ snpei'JOr warmth of the air i 1 tlw hnsin of Ohio. 11115 current does, no duul t, contt·ibute t mit'gnte tlte cold of winter and . augment the heat of :mmrn r:r; b:1t it!' etltcts ~tre tnO I'C than counte1·bdR uc~d b r a fat· greater exposure to tbe uorth anu northwest and northeast, than to tbe south or ~'Outh rest. t ~hat pr:··cise i.den.l\1r. Yolney nttache1l to spt·iog, it is very difficult to determme. H uy spt·w·r rs meant the vema! sea. on .of l'f•newal of vegetnlion, per· ha.ps no eountry ha · so pro trac ted n season of spnng Rs the middle states of tha United States From tbe lmlt buddinP' of tb~ elm , maples, end willows, often in M:wch to the full dt!velojwmcnt of t!Je foliage of tbe woods toward51 the end of May, t!Jree mo11ths, o1· one-fourth the yeat• elapses. That the peculiar charuc~ et• of an Amf'rican sprit. g may differ fr?rn thut of .Fmnce, w~ can readily hcl rcve ; hut we :He also dtsposed to conssdcr that every season m every dis· tnnt colln ry hns no appropriU!tC ehuracter, thnt distinguishes it fr0m the same nomir1al scruo;nn in otlwr p!Hces. . t The 1·ndical fault of 11enl'ly all ar.eount:; hitherto published of this very llllet·es!illg country, is, gi\·i11g not only a general, but eve[j a unifor·m character to a spaces cxtensin~, Hnd in it-, vari ous parts so extremely dissintilnl'. The extent and po. ition oftbe O!Jio all ey is already giveu, from which it will app~ m·, that tl1t> Hot·them anti sollth('f'll extr·emes must present seasons diti'cring Wid ely iu temperatnre. A very c;u rsory revie v of tire attending map will serve to de1n0nstrate the q"J'P.at ineqnulity in the su rface oftbis extensive I'Cgion. Enc. lo~ed by mowstains on tlte cas!, southeast, and in great par·t on the sontb; cn~~~ ·cly opPII to lha 1 oi'tll, nOI'thwest and west, and cut into deep channels by lis 1111mrmus riven, fow countries on earth cau exhibit more varied I' mo1·a {lbtiu ctive f'·aturcs. Applyiug any genen l epil bet tu ::;uch an Cli} anse must lead to Ct't'u t·. , 'l'he quality of the local surface nnd soil is also val'ied to almost infinity. ~o dosCJ·iptioo of land fr· m ru{"ged mountains, whose smnmits arc upwards of 2000 fijet ul..>ove,.the levt:l of the .Atlantic ocean t!) the r.akid pJi.1iDll of Waba ba |