Canada – Nova Scotia interesting letter of Captain Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge to his cousin Jane Letitia Troubridge Bruce describing his conditions in Nova Scotia : ‘I wish I had been a fellow passenger with you instead of coming to this miserable climate where the cold is sufficient to freeze both mind and body, the thermometer was seven degrees below zero this morning, ice half and inch thick in a jug within a yard of my bed. I expect to wake one frosty morning and find myself fiz. It is some consolation to know that you are enjoying the delightful climate of the Mediterranean