Ofthe Snowe. 
l ebe indes Peas ungen Udater it diflolueth, 
„„ wersuecage ae . 
nech colde. 3 
The, „eme The Mholwe dooth fall fo2 the moſt parte in tze tyme ak 
: ai és = Winter, when the whirle windes dooblowe: it falleth in 
5 ee. mW Countries which are full of Mountaines, it neuer falleth 
in places that are very whot, vnleſſe it be by great maruell. 
WUiben it falleth it is faire andof a goodly ſhew, by reaſon it 
kalleth in peetes very white, and it falleth foftiy without 
Tempeſt oꝛ Apꝛe,it feaſteth the people as it lalleth with her 
feathers,it hurteth no bodie:and ik it doo harden the Earth, 
when it melteth, it fofteneth it againe and fatteneth it. It 
Hilleth the euill hearbs, and doch frucifte and increaſe them 
Aae Cale. Dich are good, as Aulo Gelio ſapeth, and foz this it is ſaid. 
= The peere of Snow, the peere of fertilitie: 
It dooch good to them of the Mountaynes and to the 
Sen Punters > fopinthe tyme that it falleth, thers are taken 
* wioze ktoze of wilde Beutes and wildetowle, then at other 
Galen faieth, that the gonotve dodeth cauſe that the 
——— and ſo it dooeth conſerue ita long 
fime that it rotte not: and like wiſe it conſerueth the 
Fleſhe from Putrifaction , as wee fee in the Poun⸗ 
kaines amonge the Snowe there are found men and beaſtes 
that were frofen fo muche without corruption, as though 
they were putte into Balſamo: Galen fapeth when Snowe 
dodeth fall, it is a Token that calde Diſeaſes are at hande, 
and the older the Snowe is, the harder it is and it loo⸗ 
: Goth bis foftnette and waxeth harde 3in Gucbe atem 
i fe Pounta ines there are Bnildinges and hollotve plas 
tes made of Snowe lo ſtrong, that they ſeeme as thous 
then woulde indure many numbers efpecres, | 82 
Manie other geod thinges are ‘tabee fpakenofthe 
of  inbiche 9 booe let fo tpeake of faz to treate ofone, 
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