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take great care not to kill any one, and reea 

 them with powder fugar, which they throw 

 on the floor. 



I was told, that the heat was ftill greater 

 at Gamron and Bajfora than at Suratte : and 

 if this is true, then it muft be exceflive ; and 

 I do not wonder that the Dutch have given 

 up Gamron. Even in October the Szvedijh 

 thermometer rofe thirty-feven degrees. A 

 'Florentine thermometer was at half all hour 

 pad five o'clock in the morning at thirty-feven 

 degrees, and in the afternoon it rofe to feventy- 

 five degrees. Father Bonaventura has obferv- 

 ed that the cold is greater three days before 

 and three days after the new moon. It is 

 fomewhat fingular, that notwithstanding this 

 place is but juft north of the cequator, the 

 time between the months of May and Septem- 

 ber fhould be called winter, and other months 

 fummer, only becaufe it rains during the for- 

 mer. 



The Chriflians in Suratte are Armenians , of 

 "which the greateft part were natives of Julfa, 

 and have their Archimandrite here. They 

 have feveral books in their language, printed! 

 zt :■ Am/isrdam, They are known in trade on 



account 



