December 31, 1783

Posted by sydney on Dec 31st, 1783

Ice under people’s beds.  Water bottles burst in chambers.  Meat frozen.  The fierce weather drove the snipes out of the moors of the forest up the streams towards the spring-heads.  Many were shot round the village.

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