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TO find a parallel to this frost for intensity and endurance, we must go back, as regards London and the south of England generally, to the severe winter of 1814, when the great fair was held on the Thames, which for long presented from bank to bank a uniform stretch of hummocky ice and snow. In that year the severity of the winter was more equably felt over the whole of Great Britain than during the present winter. Thus in 1814, the mean temperature of Gordon Castle, near the Moray Firth, for January was 27°˙0, whereas during last December it was 36°˙5; and, so far as records go, all parts of the United Kingdom suffered nearly alike during that memorable winter.
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The Great Frost of the Winter of 1890–91. Nature 43, 270 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043270b0
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