20. Exceeding Cold, & freezing Wind being high and piercing from the No. West.
GW on this date wrote Jonathan Boucher that it was “quite impossible . . . to cross the River in these Storms of wind.” Ice was also hindering travelers (20–25 Feb. 1771, DLC:GW).

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