There is a sort of tradition in the village, that the climate has undergone a degree of change since the arrival of the first colonists ; the springs are said to have become more uncertain, and the summers less warm ; so say elderly people who knew the place forty years since. But there may be some self-deception in the case, for we are naturally more apt to feel the frost of today, than that of last year, and memory may very possibly have softened the climate to those who look back from age to youth.—Susan Fenimore Cooper, 1850

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