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What astonishing weather - along in Nov. there was a fall fo snow, foot or so, but it melted away in a few days, and has October & April ever since. Once in a while it will get a little chilly, just enough to begin to freese (sic) nights, the cloud away, rain a little, and clear of warm & foggy like April or May. I think though such Winter weather must be unhealthy. It has been though most astonishingly favorable for our R.R. work. Bridges, buildings of all sorts have gone ahead every day, just like Summer. While cold, snowy or icy weather would have delayed almost immeasurably. Men would not have done much running out timbers on this bridge here 60 or 70 feet from the water, in cold icy or even snowy weather. I should n't have admired it myself overmuch. Mail time

I.S. Metcalf P.S. Write soon.

Written along the bottom, upside down Isaac Dec 17 1848 Correspondence with J. McKeen.