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Dr. Noah Webster, in a con1munra,.. io Silliman's Journal, gives an accon,t ~ some extraordinary cold winters; hn, VI ~ for the majority of them, he does not oao,s lis authority, we know not what deerae ~ as credit Is due to them beyond that if 1'' name. As, however, he Is careful eom ' piler, we presume that they may be receir. ed without misgiving. For the amns.. ment of our readers, we subjoin few # his instances:

 sin the year 400 the Euxine was cove, ed with ice fer 20 days Iii 859. tha Aa riatic was covered with ice; but for ubs. length of lime does not appear. In s2q the Thames was frozen over for l3 week.. the same fver was also frezen oyer ;s l263, 1869 and l607-s. Several timss since the same has happened, thoneh m, mentioned by Dr. Webster. In l649 Boston harbor was so locked by ice. ,bae teams passed from one isle 10 another. ami the ice extended so far into the sea, that m water was visible from the town. The winter Of l633 was so severe in Eurone that trees were split by the frost. Ioaded sledges passed on the ice from Boston to Nanlasket in the winter of l696-7. On the 12th December, l70s, the frost in New. England was so intense, that trees were killed. \ fall Of snow took place in Feb. ruary, 17l7, so deep, that people in Bos. ion had 10 get out of their chamber Wn. dows. Eleven hundred sheep perished on Fishers Island, iron. being buried Is feet in the snow two were found alive aiier lapse of 2s days, they having supported themselves by chewing the wool of the others. In l780, the Chesapeake was coy. cred with ice as far as the mouth of the Pc. tonae. In the same year, troops of horse and heavy cannon crossed on the ice from New York 10 Staten Island and Long Is. land Sound was nearly covered with iee.- Alm st all the birds of the forest perisheda

 From these accounts we may infer, that severe winters will occasionally take place, though, owing to The effect of extended cnl. tlvation in.moderatlng the temperature, they maybe less frequent, and perhaps not quite so pinchiug, as in earlier ages.

 BaH. Gdz.