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not able to leave their homes. This rain continued whether near day, and, being a warm rain, it at last ? the ?, which was unusually deep, into each an amount of slush as one must see to believe. At last, after daily delays, of many hours each, and several mishaps on the road, to be attributed to the mismanagement of the authorities of the bankrupt Canadian Railway Companies, I reached Montreal at the end of the week, when the weather suddenly, as in its often changing during the week, I must not omit an instance of unchanging persistence the weather had exhibited during the earlier part of the same winter. There had been forty five days at Montreal (but I was told that there was no record of any other equal spell of cold during which the marking of the thermometer had been continuously below zero. This winter, however, of '67-'68 will be memorable for its severity. Nr. Minnesota 36 degrees , and in Wisconsin 51 degrees below zero had been reached.