Show cold winters tho the following statistics of the good old european E european winters are curious rious and find go to show allow that th at the cold old c snap here was as nothing r to rome that have been experienced experienced heretofore in other lan lauds in the black sea was entirely frozen over in not only the black se sea but the straits of the dardanelles Darda nelles were frozen over the snow in some places rose fifty feet high if in the great rivers of trope europe L tho the danube and elbe etc ete were so hard bard frozen as to bear wagons for a month in the adriatic was frozen in everything was frozen ole crops totally failed and famine and pestilence pe sti lence closed the year in 1067 most of the travelers were frozen to death on tho the roads in 1133 the po was frozen from cremona to the sea tho the wine ca casks were burst and even tho trees split plit by the action ot of the frost with immense noise ing the danube was frozen to the bottom and remained long in in that state in 1316 the crops wholly failed in germany wheat which some years before sold in in england E at as the quarter rose to xa in 1339 tha crops failed in in scotland and such a famine ensued that tho the poor were reduced to feed en cn grass gram z and many p perished miserably in the fields the successive winters of 1432 were U uncommonly severe it once snowed sl owed I fo forty rt days without interruption in 1468 the wine distributed to the soldiers in flanders was cut with hatchets in 1864 the winter was excessively cold most of the hollies were killed coaches drove along the thames tho the ice of which was eleven cleven inches thick in 1709 occurred the cold winter the frosts penetrated three yards into the ground in 1715 booths were erected and ani fairs held on the thames in 1744 and 1845 the strongest ale in england exposed to td the air froze an eighth of an inch thick in 1807 and again in 1812 the winters were remarkably cold in 1814 there was a fair on the frozen thames |