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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Severe snowstorm in Scotland blocks mail coach roads, delaying mails from London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh; guards missing; unprecedented depth reported from Moffat and Berwick, February 1795.
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"I wrote you a letter two days ago which is still here, for though I have made an effort twice, I have been obliged to return, not having reached the half of the first stage.- Two mails are due from London, three from Glasgow, and four from Edinburgh. Neither the last guard that went from hence for Glasgow on Thursday, nor he that went on Wednesday, have since been heard of; this country was never so completely blocked up in the memory of the oldest person, or that they ever heard of. I understand the road is ten feet deep with snow between this and Hamilton. I have had it cut through once but this third fall makes an attempt impossible-Heaven only knows when the road will be open, nothing but a thaw can do it; it is now intense frost."
Another writes in the same way from Berwick, with the addition that he was three winters in North America, but never saw so much snow.
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Primary Location
Moffat
Event Date
February 14th. 1795
Outcome
mails delayed; two guards not heard from; roads blocked by ten feet of snow; intense frost prevents clearing
Event Details
Superintendent reports failed attempts to deliver mail due to snow; two mails due from London, three from Glasgow, four from Edinburgh; unprecedented blockage; road ten feet deep between Moffat and Hamilton; third snow fall; needs thaw. Another from Berwick reports similarly, worse than North American winters.