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Chapter 9 Page 154 I left Charleston at midday.It was a cold day, but there was no ice in the town. A few miles out of the town, on the Augusta Railway, it was freezing sharply, the railway unclear were coated with ice, the ground was white with hoar frost wherever the sun had not touched it. I supposed that the warmer air from the bay had kept the front out of the town. All through that day in traveling as far as Augusta & for the next two days I found the frost (in the frost) (struck out) in the country between Augusta and Atlanta, very severe. We would have considered them unusually cold days in England; unclear (struck out) and yet there was not a cloud to intercept a ray of the Southern Sun. To my sensations it was colder than I found it on any other occasion during my tour in the United States. I mention this because it is satisfactory to collect indications of large districts of the South being adapted to white labour. No doubt the summer here is very warm, but here was cold enough to brace up relaxed constitutions. I here saw an effect of frost, which, I suppose from differences in radiation & evaporation is never seen in England. Everywhere along the railway embankments and cuttings the ice appeared shot out in rays or spikes three or four inches in length, & then to have bent over. When the rays were shorter they remained straight. I asked a gentleman how the people of the country explained this phenomenon. "Our explanation of it is", he replied "that in there parts the land unclear up the ice." (struck out)